Remove Activate Windows 10 watermark Permanently [Updated 2021]

Are you getting “Activate Windows- Go to settings to activate windows” watermark on your desktop? Or Looking for the way to remove activate windows watermark permanently from your desktop? This is because your windows license has expired. If you have a product key then you can activate it directly, to remove activate Windows watermark. But if you don’t have one, here how to remove activate windows 10 watermark without a product key.

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1 How to remove activate windows watermark?

How to remove activate windows watermark?

Applied different solutions but still, activate windows watermark keeps coming back? Don’t worry here in this post we have the working ways to remove windows 10 watermark Permanently.

Remove active windows watermark with help of cmd

With a simple notepad trick, you can easily remove Activate Windows 10 Watermark from your desktop. Let’s see how to do it.

First, open notepad on your PC You can do this by click on the start menu search type notepad and hit the enter key. Now on notepad type, the below commands :

@echo off
taskkill /F /IM explorer.exe
explorer.exe
exit

Go to File and click “Save as”. Here select the location where you want to save the file. Then Change the save as type to All Files (*.*) and Give the file name as “ remove.bat”

Now open the file location where you saved it. You will see a file as shown below image. Right-click on the remove.bat file and click on “Run as administrator”

A command prompt will be opened and closed itself, Now restart your laptop or desktop. That’s all there is no more “activate windows go to settings to activate windows” on your Desktop.

Registry Tweak to remove Activate windows watermark

Here another tweak to remove activate windows 10 watermark using the windows registry editor.

Open Windows registry editor by Press Windows + R, type regedit and hit the enter key.
Then expand HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
Double click on the value “PaintDesktopVersion” in the right-hand window.
And Change the value “1” to a “0” and click OK to save changes.
Close registry editor and any other programs and restart your computer.

In addition, refer to this video for one more registry tweak that help remove activate windows watermark on windows 10.

Windows watermark remover tool

Still activate windows watermark keeps coming back? You can use a third party windows watermark remover tool, “Universal Watermark Disabler 1.0.0.6” which helps remove all kinds of watermarks in Windows 10.

Running this tool didn’t delete any branding strings (for example does not modify system files) only remove watermarks including Test Mode, Build string in the evaluation and pre-release builds,

Download ‘Universal Watermark Disabler’ here,
locate and unzip the file in the download folder
save and close all applications running on your computer
Finally, double click on uwd.exe to run the tool, Click yes if UAC prompt for permission,
Click on install, The application will run and automatically restart your computer.

On the next start when you log in back to your machine you will notice the remove windows activation message disappeared.

Disable Activate Windows Watermark by using Ease of Access

Yes, also you can also remove the windows 10 activation watermark from the ease of access options.

Press Windows key + S type control panel and select the first result,
Go to Ease of Access Centre (to get this option make sure to Change control panel view by large icons)
Click on Make the computer easier to see, scroll down to the bottom and check the mark on Remove background images (where available)
Click ok and restart your PC and check the status of remove the windows 10 activation watermark.

that’s all, did the above solutions help remove activate windows watermark on windows 10? Let us know in the comments below.

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