Remove “For testing purposes only. Build 6801″ watermark from your Windows 7 desktop

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Remove “For testing purposes only. Build 6801″ watermark from your Windows 7 desktop

Our previous tutorial showed how to unlock protected features such as the superbar, remove the watermark and remove the 30 day trial.

In this tutorial we’ll just be showing how to remove the watermark at the bottom right of the screen on Windows 7 build 6801 desktops in easy steps. The watermark should state “For testing purposes only. Build 6801″ and look a little like the image below.

Windows 7 Taskbar

Once all steps have been completed, the watermark should disappear.

Windows 7 Taskbar

Step One - Switch off Windows UAC (User Account Control)

- Start Menu -> Control Panel -> User Accounts

- Find User Account Control, you’ll then be shown a vertical slider, move the slider to the bottom of the screen.

- Restart your computer.

Step Two - Rename user32.dll.mui

- Start Menu -> Computer -> C Drive -> Windows -> System32 -> en-US

- Your browser should now be at C:\Windows\System32\en-US\.

- Locate user32.dll.mui, right click it.

System32 - en-US

- Select the ‘Security’ tab, click the ‘Advanced’ button and then visit the ‘Owner’ tab.

- Select the ‘Edit’ button and make yourself the owner of the file.

- Exit that dialog, saving changes and return to the original properties dialog.

- Click the “Edit…” button, select Users and give yourself Full Control by selecting all the checkboxs.

- Exit properties saving changes.

- Rename user32.dll.mui to user32-backup.dll.mui.

Step Three - Finishing up

- Users of regular 32bit systems download x86. Users of 64bit systems download x64. This zip file contains a patched user32.dll.mui file.

- Extract the user32.dll.mui file and place it in the folder en-US (C:\Windows\System32\en-US\).

- Restart your system. Enjoy.

Windows 7 Taskbar

Unlocking special features (build 6801) - Page 3 - Windows 7 Forums on November 16th, 2008 at 5:12 pm

[...] Thanks Shawn, updated watermark removal tutorial (containing a patched, yet untested x64 [...]

Tutorial What on November 16th, 2008 at 5:13 pm

x64 patched user32.dll.mui is currently untested.

Unlocking special/protected features and taskbar, removing 30 day trial and watermark on Windows 7 (build 6801) | Tutorial What on November 16th, 2008 at 5:16 pm

[...] UPDATE: Improved watermark removal tutorial. [...]

TimeWriter on December 1st, 2008 at 6:59 pm

X64 tested by me (Windows7 X64 build 8601), not working, that annoying message it’s still there. Why ?

asker on December 4th, 2008 at 8:54 am

Hey nice it’s work Thanks very mutch i like thise

DJ_Crash on December 12th, 2008 at 7:05 pm

i can’t remove watermark in 64bit version how is it possable?

Remove/disable "For testing purposes only. Build 7000" watermark and "Send Feedback" link from your Windows 7 beta 1 desktop | Tutorial What on December 30th, 2008 at 12:47 am

[...] previously we showed how to unlock the superbar, remove the activation countdown and remove the watermark from Windows 7 build [...]

Mauro on January 3rd, 2009 at 2:33 am

It doesn’t work with windows 7 build 7000…..32 bits
do u have another solution????
bye thanks

Tutorial What on January 3rd, 2009 at 10:29 am

Unfortunately not at the moment. Very shortly though. Thanks Mauro.

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