26
Jun
2008

Subscribe
Bookmark and Share

If you own a trial Windows Vista or a Windows Vista RTM, or if you just downloaded and installed Windows Vista SP1 RTM, after a couple of reboots you will notice the dreaded watermark on the bottom right corner of your screen saying that your Vista is an “evaluation copy”. If you want to get rid of it, here you can find a little hack which lets you say goodbye to the hunting mark. This hack is quite useful above all if you have a laptop used to show your works during a conference of if you just don’t want to let other people know that “your Vista is not really yours but still belong to Microsoft somewhat”.

  1. Download this free patched file from one of these two locations, here and here.
  2. Go to: C:\Windows\System32\xy-XY and look for user32.dll.mui (this file makes the hated watermark appears on the screen). By the way, xy-XY is the folder which corresponds to your language such as: en-US for English, fr-FR for French etc.
  3. Right-click user32.dll.mui and select Properties. Click Advanced button. Go to Owner and click the Edit button. Select Administrator and click Apply. You should now have ownership of the file.
  4. Rename user32.dll.mui into user32.dll.mui.bakup so that you will have a backup just in case something goes wrong.
  5. Copy the patched user32.dll.mui file (point 1) to the same directory as the original file.
  6. Reboot and at this point you should have got rid of the watermark.

Source: keznews.com



Tags: hack, Vista

WP Greet Box icon
Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on this topic.

Related Articles Latest Articles

If you can not find what you are looking for, you might want to try Google Advanced Search and get thousands of results, specifically selected for you.

Google Advanced Search
.

One Comment to “How to remove RTM evalutation copy watermark in Vista”

  1. Windows 7: Eliminarea textului “For testing only” | CNET.ro Says:

    [...] acel DLL, astfel încât notiţa să nu mai apară. Încă din decembrie anul trecut există aici un articol ce explică pas cu pas cum trebuie făcut. DLL-ul se găseşte aici precum şi aici [...]

Leave a Comment

If you want to show an image next to your comments, get your gravatar now!

XHTML - You can use the following tags:  <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

CommentLuv Enabled


Incoming Search Terms for the Article:

this copy of windows is not genuine hack vista - vista watermark remover - windows explorer watermark bottom right screen -images - windows 7 show evaluation copy in bottom right corner of screen - windows 2008 watermark evaluation - watermark 7600 remover windows 7 - watermark 7600 build remover - ?????? ????? water mark - removing build 7600 hacking tricks - remove windows 7 build 7600 not genuine watermark - remove watermark not genuine - remove bottom right corner 7600 windows - How To Remove Watermark From Windows 7 rtm - how to make windows vista genuine for free - windows vista RTM copies -

All contents are licenced under a Creative Commons Licence.
Best screen resolution 1280x800 or higher.
Web Talk is best viewed in Firefox.