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Tutorial: Remove Evaluation Watermark from Desktop Works in RC1 AND RC2 - Links updated! Rate Topic: -----

#1 User is offline   bytesurfer 

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  Posted 17 September 2006 - 08:09 PM

The RC1 watermark in the right corner is set by user32.dll.mui.

The user32.dll.mui file is situated in your '\Windows\System32\xy-XY' folder (accordingly to your installed language):
on english based systems in 'en-US', german = 'de-DE' [, ...].

Here are 2 solutions to stop this Watermark being displayed:

I.) Modify user32.dll.mui by yourself (for instance with ResourceTuner or similar programs)
or
II.) Replace original user32.dll.mui with a patched one

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I.) You intend to modify the file by yourself? Ok, let´s start!

[1.] Create a folder 'C:\user32dll', switch to your '\Windows\System32\xy-XY' folder and copy the user32.dll.mui to your new folder.

[2.] Start ResourceTuner (or a similar program) and navigate to 'c:\user32dll\user32.dll.mui'.
In the treeview panel expand 'String', open Item #45 and modify the strings like in the image below.

Item #45
Attachment attachment

Do the same for Item #46 and #47.

Attachment attachment Attachment attachment

[3.] After completing all changes save the file and quit ResourceTuner.

That´s all about the modding part..
Now, we want to attach the modified user32.dll.mui to our System.

[4.] In your '\Windows\System32\xy-XY' folder right-click to user32.dll.mui, click on Properties
from the contextual menu select the Security tab.

Attachment attachment Notice: Before you are able to change the permission settings you have to get ownership of the user32.dll.mui file!

[5.] Click on the Advanced button. Click on the Owner tab; change your settings and get ownership of that file.
Now you can edit the permission settings on the Security tab to get full access.
Click the OK button to apply your changes.

[6.] Rename the user32.dll.mui to user32.dll.mui.bak.

[7.] Copy our modified user32.dll.mui to 'Windows\System32\xy-XY', Reboot and Enjoy!

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II.) Download the modified user32.dll.mui and run steps 4.-7.

Download English Version

Download French Version

Download German Version


I thank Lost SOul™ & Nesquix from www.aeroxp.org/board discovering this tweak in the English and French Version of user32.dll.mui in RC1. © 2006 Lost SOul™ & Nesquix
The German Version is modified by myself. © 2006 ByteSurfer

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Posted 17 September 2006 - 08:29 PM

After reading this I was wondering if it is possible to put a watermark on XP's desktop...

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Posted 17 September 2006 - 08:30 PM

Is this legal? :lol:

But good tip anyways!

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Posted 17 September 2006 - 08:39 PM

View PostLLXX, on Sep 18 2006, 04:29 AM, said:

After reading this I was wondering if it is possible to put a watermark on XP's desktop...


Who said something about XP???
This Tutorial is written for Windows Vista RC1. And it works!

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Posted 17 September 2006 - 11:39 PM

Thanks very much, I was looking for a way to turn this off. :)

View PostLLXX, on Sep 17 2006, 09:29 PM, said:

After reading this I was wondering if it is possible to put a watermark on XP's desktop...


Yes, I believe TweakUI has this option.

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Posted 18 September 2006 - 01:25 AM

great thanks :)

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Posted 18 September 2006 - 02:17 AM

I can't download English version of the patch. :(

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  Posted 18 September 2006 - 03:00 AM

Sweet!!

:thumbup Posted Image

Now how about that security icon?

I killed it in services but it remains

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Posted 18 September 2006 - 03:59 AM

View Postkartel, on Sep 18 2006, 10:00 AM, said:

Sweet!!

:thumbup Posted Image

Now how about that security icon?

I killed it in services but it remains


Go to Windows Security Center and disable choose not to monitor Virus protection..

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Posted 18 September 2006 - 04:50 AM

View PostN1K, on Sep 18 2006, 10:59 AM, said:

View Postkartel, on Sep 18 2006, 10:00 AM, said:

Sweet!!

:thumbup Posted Image

Now how about that security icon?

I killed it in services but it remains


Go to Windows Security Center and disable choose not to monitor Virus protection..



yup

and LLXX, tweakui can put windows version on desktop

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Posted 18 September 2006 - 05:58 AM

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did that............. :}

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Posted 18 September 2006 - 06:07 AM

View Postkartel, on Sep 18 2006, 12:58 PM, said:

did that............. :}


Start the service and than disable monitoring of the Virus protection..

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  Posted 18 September 2006 - 06:18 AM

I'm blind..... :blushing:





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Posted 18 September 2006 - 11:27 AM

View PostN1K, on Sep 18 2006, 03:17 AM, said:

I can't download English version of the patch. :(


Yeah, the link didn't work for me either so I took the address of the French version and removed FR from the file name. It worked, here is the English link: http://eoxus.free.fr...p_tag_patch.rar

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Posted 18 September 2006 - 11:55 AM

View PostSkyfrog, on Sep 18 2006, 07:27 PM, said:

View PostN1K, on Sep 18 2006, 03:17 AM, said:

I can't download English version of the patch. :(


Yeah, the link didn't work for me either so I took the address of the French version and removed FR from the file name. It worked, here is the English link: http://eoxus.free.fr...p_tag_patch.rar


Thx :thumbup

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Posted 24 September 2006 - 06:32 AM

Any idea to removw "Evalution copy"watermark from desktop in
windows xp x64 edition and windows 2k3 server R2

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Please help....
//Ramesh//

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Posted 25 September 2006 - 07:55 PM

View PostLLXX, on Sep 17 2006, 10:29 PM, said:

After reading this I was wondering if it is possible to put a watermark on XP's desktop...


Download TweakUI from Microsoft.com. Click General then scroll down and select "Show Windows version on desktop"

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Posted 25 September 2006 - 11:34 PM

View Postneo_matrix.rs, on Sep 24 2006, 07:32 AM, said:

Any idea to removw "Evalution copy"watermark from desktop in
windows xp x64 edition and windows 2k3 server R2

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Please help....
//Ramesh//
and @ the post below that one, I figured it out - it's a registry key called PaintDesktopVersion.

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Posted 25 September 2006 - 11:55 PM

View PostiCrash, on Sep 26 2006, 07:25 AM, said:

View PostLLXX, on Sep 17 2006, 10:29 PM, said:

After reading this I was wondering if it is possible to put a watermark on XP's desktop...


Download TweakUI from Microsoft.com. Click General then scroll down and select "Show Windows version on desktop"


"paintdektopversion" reg key also

no any help about this . i have already done

any more....

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Posted 26 September 2006 - 05:35 AM

Why bother to remove the watermark at this time anyway. You just have to do it again and again for each build, and then its going to go away anyway when Vista goes RTM. Besides, there is no need to modify any files to do this, its a registry entry change.

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