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How To Remove Watermark From Windows 7 Builds [Both X86 & X64]

Posted March 18, 2009 – 10:08 am in: Windows 7, Windows 7 Tweaks
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Many users are asking how to remove evaluation copy (Or testing purpose only) watermark that appears on the bottom right of Windows 7 desktop. Generally, we need to edit system file to make it happen. But thankfully, we have a simple, clean and working patch that does the job perfectly.

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Before getting into the innards of the guide, it’s better to backup your system files since you are going edit user32.dll.mui system file using a small patch. Follow the steps given below to remove watermark from the Windows 7 desktop.

Procedure:

1. Download the patch from here (Thanks to deepxw for creating the patch).

2. Right-click on Removewatermark (.exe) file and select Run as administrator. Make sure that you have chosen RemovewatermarkX86.exe file, if you are using 32-bit Windows. Likewise choose RemovewatermarkX64.exe for 64-bit Windows.

3. Next, a command prompt will be opened asking your permission to continue. Press/type “Y” to continue patching process.

Command Prompt Asking Permission

4. Within few seconds, a successful message will be shown. Close Command Prompt window & reboot your system.

Water Mark Command Prompt

5. Enjoy!

If the watermark appears even after rebooting the machine, then follow the procedure below.

1. Type CMD in Start menu search field and hit enter Ctrl + Shift + Enter to open Command Prompt with admin rights. Alternatively, go to Start > All programs > Accessories. Right-click on Command Prompt entry, and select Run as administrator.

2. In the Command Prompt, type in mcbuilder.exe and hit enter. It may take a minute to finish the process. Now, close the Command Prompt window and reboot Windows 7.

Windows 7 watermark

3. You should see no watermark on your desktop now.

Note that this patch should work fine on all builds of Windows 7 including build 7057.

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61 Comments

  1. Alan
    Posted April 1, 2009 at 4:27 pm | Permalink

    It works on build 7068 as well. great patch, great tip!

    Alan

  2. edcar tenedero
    Posted April 13, 2009 at 7:59 pm | Permalink

    hi guys, i’ve been trying to do the same procedure how to remove the “Evaluation Copy” in my Windows 7, RC Build 7077. is there anyone can give me easy direction? this message is truly annoying and not good in the eye. please respond. thanks

  3. Spiktsu
    Posted April 16, 2009 at 6:48 am | Permalink

    Awesomeness!
    thank you..
    Works great!

  4. Ryan
    Posted April 25, 2009 at 2:00 pm | Permalink

    I just tried it on RC1 (build 7100) and it worked perfectly! Thanks

  5. Rick
    Posted April 25, 2009 at 10:35 pm | Permalink

    Did not work for me with build 7100

  6. kamasheto
    Posted April 27, 2009 at 2:09 pm | Permalink

    Works on build 7077 as well. Thanks for this.

  7. bart
    Posted April 28, 2009 at 5:44 am | Permalink

    I think this is spyware

  8. holidayidol
    Posted April 30, 2009 at 2:52 am | Permalink

    Thanks! Worked on RC1 Build 7100 86x. Other methods I read did not work, but this one did.
    Confirmed as of 4/29/09

  9. Gatton
    Posted May 2, 2009 at 10:53 am | Permalink

    Ran this on RC1 7100 X64 and it worked perfectly. Thanks!

  10. Lee Swain
    Posted May 5, 2009 at 10:59 pm | Permalink

    Works great for me on Windows 7 Release Candidate! Although had to do the CMD mcbuilder.exe.

    THANKS

  11. WebKuko
    Posted May 6, 2009 at 10:59 am | Permalink

    Works great !!, i used it on my Windows 7 RC build 7100, it makes no problem to my installed MUI, Recomended! thanks!! =D

  12. arizal
    Posted May 6, 2009 at 9:06 pm | Permalink

    thanks… works on my 7 7100

  13. TDF
    Posted May 7, 2009 at 3:49 am | Permalink

    Worked great in 7100 x64 here, first try.

  14. Jarrod
    Posted May 10, 2009 at 8:00 pm | Permalink

    The second method worked for me on RC1, build 7100.

  15. ?omeONE
    Posted May 21, 2009 at 3:08 am | Permalink

    Works great on RC – 7100 ! Thank you very much!

  16. asskicker
    Posted May 24, 2009 at 4:05 pm | Permalink

    It’s Worked…thank you very much

  17. insanesk8er
    Posted June 7, 2009 at 10:21 pm | Permalink

    awesome patch works on RC-7100

  18. alph_nikstein23
    Posted June 8, 2009 at 5:41 pm | Permalink

    The second method worked for me on RC1, build 7100 32 bit OS :)

  19. PWW
    Posted June 9, 2009 at 11:36 pm | Permalink

    works on W7 build 7137 64bit, thanks!

  20. proteus
    Posted June 13, 2009 at 6:26 pm | Permalink

    Works perfectly with W7 build 7229.0.090604-1901_x86

    Thank you.

  21. Yuri Olive
    Posted June 17, 2009 at 5:28 am | Permalink

    Thank u a lot. Work on Windows 7 64-bits build 7100.

  22. BLAST3R
    Posted June 20, 2009 at 6:22 pm | Permalink

    Works like a charm at Windows 7 Build 7260 32bit

  23. Taspats
    Posted June 20, 2009 at 6:38 pm | Permalink

    Thanks,works on Windows 7 build 7260 RTM x86

  24. jdawg0024
    Posted July 10, 2009 at 10:47 pm | Permalink

    Worked perfect for 7100 build (had to do the cmd part as well as the patch) but never the less it worked thanks for putting this together. (To the users that say it doesnt work for 7100 build. “You’re doing it wrong”)

  25. drone
    Posted July 11, 2009 at 10:25 am | Permalink

    will it work on a Build 7000?

  26. Appoc
    Posted July 14, 2009 at 5:45 pm | Permalink

    Thx for this. Works like a charm, Win 7 RC, build 7100.

  27. david
    Posted July 17, 2009 at 10:01 am | Permalink

    THIS THING COMPLETELY DESTROYED MY COMPUTER. WILL NEVER TRY SUCH A THING AGAIN. TERRIBLE.

  28. ffmaniac
    Posted July 17, 2009 at 10:23 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for this bud. Event ho its still the evaluation version of windows 7 it’s nice to have that off my desktop. :) cheer mate :) – win 7 build 7600 x64

  29. JDawson
    Posted July 17, 2009 at 11:52 pm | Permalink

    Worked great in win 7 RC1 build 7100 64 bit
    and the second part worked good on 32 bit as well

  30. waynemarg
    Posted July 25, 2009 at 3:02 am | Permalink

    It is working great on Windows 7! Thanks

  31. Poa Alpina
    Posted July 25, 2009 at 1:50 pm | Permalink

    Works on Windows 7 RC 7100 x64, thanks!

  32. andrew
    Posted August 3, 2009 at 12:54 pm | Permalink

    Watermark gone after reboot, thanks!

  33. Varun
    Posted August 8, 2009 at 7:47 am | Permalink

    It is not working in win 7 Build 7000

  34. Frankologic
    Posted August 14, 2009 at 1:56 am | Permalink

    i removed the watermark with this tool, and got this instead. at first i thought that it was a message pop up that had glitched, but now i see it all the time. Anyone else has this problem? and mabe a solution?

    http://i26.tinypic.com/34did6b.png

  35. admin
    Posted August 14, 2009 at 1:20 pm | Permalink

    Frankologic, it’s a strange problem. Can you tell me the Windows 7 build version that you are running?

  36. Robin
    Posted August 28, 2009 at 3:36 am | Permalink

    Works perfectly on build 7600 RTM.

  37. dan
    Posted September 8, 2009 at 7:45 pm | Permalink

    on windows7 enterprise,evaluation copy 90 days,build 7600,DON’T work…it say still 90 days evaluations.

  38. rai@hot
    Posted September 9, 2009 at 6:05 am | Permalink

    hello I got the watermark on windows seven after installing the universal theme patcher for windows seven by the same guy that did this thing man

    at least it removed the dam thing but why do that ?????

  39. ntquartex
    Posted September 14, 2009 at 12:25 am | Permalink

    First watermark is gone but it still says : “Windows license is valid for 90 days” Does anyone have any solution for this watermark?

  40. Think
    Posted September 28, 2009 at 6:30 pm | Permalink

    In windows 7 rc 7100 x86 it’s work. Perfect Thanks!!!

  41. ozdap
    Posted October 9, 2009 at 9:02 pm | Permalink

    Perfect! all gone on Build 7600

  42. omid
    Posted October 10, 2009 at 1:07 am | Permalink

    thanks very much for program
    i love yo

  43. Xcents
    Posted November 3, 2009 at 7:35 pm | Permalink

    Hey! thnx it works also in 7’s build 7264

  44. silvano
    Posted November 25, 2009 at 2:53 pm | Permalink

    *watermark on desktop*
    i have try all the procedure, still there.
    seeking for help

  45. Master Mister Adnan
    Posted December 2, 2009 at 7:33 pm | Permalink

    Dude.. u rock!! This is awesome..! i just work perfect! Thanks a lot! may god bless u..

  46. Josh
    Posted December 4, 2009 at 7:32 pm | Permalink

    I used this and it made my copy of windows 7 not genuine, Im using build 7600

  47. Moroccan Berber
    Posted December 16, 2009 at 12:39 am | Permalink

    Hi,

    It did NOT work for me. All it did (if at all) is remove the words “Windows 7 build 7600″ while keeping the rest of the watermark: “This copy of Windows is not genuine”. Every time I light up my PC I get the 2 intimidating windows asking me to go genuine and my desktop background is set to pitch black.

    I think I’m gonna reinstall the whole thing.

    Any other solutions?

    Do you have any other remedies against the annoying start up windows and the black desktop background?

  48. Andysocial
    Posted January 2, 2010 at 8:28 pm | Permalink

    Works on build 7100 64bit no problem…

  49. Nath
    Posted January 10, 2010 at 5:46 pm | Permalink

    Thanks a lot for this! very useful!

    @ Moroccan Berber

    “Do you have any other remedies against the annoying start up windows and the black desktop background?”

    well, you could try getting a legal version of it? that usually helps.

  50. Dude_Thank
    Posted January 15, 2010 at 11:44 am | Permalink

    Dude,,

    With method 2, it’s TOTALLY WORKED for my Windows7 >> 32bit(7077).

  51. Criks
    Posted January 25, 2010 at 12:55 pm | Permalink

    awesome!greAT! BRAVO!

  52. Harold
    Posted January 28, 2010 at 1:13 am | Permalink

    Just finished the removal.No problem at all.Great patch for this.Went through the CMD to do it.

  53. Mimi
    Posted February 5, 2010 at 9:30 pm | Permalink

    Hi, the second part of your instructions worked fine. Thanks alot!

  54. Transilvania
    Posted February 6, 2010 at 7:19 pm | Permalink

    Tanks men . Works for win.7 Ultimate Build 7100 .

  55. ruk
    Posted February 18, 2010 at 3:43 pm | Permalink

    work Thank

  56. Alpha
    Posted February 23, 2010 at 7:55 pm | Permalink

    The Patchs’s link is broken, can you update it?
    thanks

  57. claudio
    Posted February 25, 2010 at 8:17 pm | Permalink

    thanks! its so good!

  58. yesaname
    Posted February 27, 2010 at 6:51 am | Permalink

    Well it worked for my build 7600 x86. Is there anything else that I should look for that could cause problems in the future?

  59. B sage
    Posted March 1, 2010 at 4:50 pm | Permalink

    Q = You must actiavte today? Windows 7 RTM shutdown 1 day?

    Just installed the lastest windows 7 official RTM build I ran windows update and
    a watermark appeared on the bottom right of the screen saying this copy of windows
    is not genuine. After rebooting I have a black screen and a prompt telling me I
    must activate windows today! What happened to the 30 day grace period?

    Am I the only one with this problem?

    SOLUTION = THE VERY SIMPLE SOLUTION :)

    A = You have to open an elevated command prompt. That is, click Start and in the Start Search box, type cmd and press Ctrl+Shift+Enter. Click Continue on the User Account Control box.
    Now in the command prompt window, type slmgr -rearm and press Enter.
    (There is a space between slmgr and -).

    Reboot if neccessary, the sage mista>>

  60. Rowan
    Posted March 12, 2010 at 8:22 am | Permalink

    Sage mista: wow, that is fantastic – thanks very much.

  61. yvoj
    Posted March 20, 2010 at 8:21 am | Permalink

    @sage , wow it worked for me!!!
    thanks a lot!!!!

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