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Turning off Windows watermark - Corenat Rovarnus - 04-16-2019
Did you legitimately acquire the Windows 10 operating system, but Microsuck disagrees? This guy used this one weird trick to remove that annoying activate windows watermark, microsoft HATES him!
https://windows101tricks.com/remove-activate-windows-10-watermark-permanently/
The registry one didn't work for me as the value was already 0, but the batch file did the job.
RE: Turning off Windows watermark - Corenat Rovarnus - 05-21-2020
Well the watermark kept coming back even after doing these, so eventually I figured I'd just "reactivate" Windows using HWIDGEN.
Backstory: I got Windows 7 through my university and then got the free upgrade to Windows 10. I then had to replace the CPU and motherboard for unrelated issues, and since Windows is bound to the motherboard Microsuck thought it was a different computer. I didn't feel like going through all the trouble to swap the old one back in and do the "out of box experience" stuff that would prevent this from happening so I just accepted the watermark for months....until I started recording game footage and it showed up in there.