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Removes watermarks strings in Windows 10, Windows 8.1 and Windows 8

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Universal Watermark Disabler

Removes watermarks strings in Windows 10, Windows 8.1 and Windows 8 (Preview).

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About source

This utility was written by me in 2015, but only now I have published its source code.

Features

  • Removes watermark strings: BootSecure, Test Mode, Build string in evaluation and pre-release builds, "Confidential" warning text and even the build hash (for internal builds).
  • Supports all builds from Windows 8 7850 to Windows 10 10240 (and newer).
  • Supports any UI language.
  • Does not delete branding strings (i.e. does not modify system files: work as proxy/injector).

How does it work?

Short answer: COM-hijacking and DLL-Proxying with inject a DLL into the ExplorerFrame.

You can also read the article is about how this utils was researched: Reverse-engineered the Universal Watermark Disabler.

Issues

The legacy implementation is incompatible with StartIsBack.

History

In the far far past I was interested in beta versions of Windows, but the non-disable watermark in them did not allow me to make a beautiful screenshot, so I had the idea to remove the watermark.

Some of changelog.

Special thanks

Special thanks to my old friend Tihiy - author of the StartIsBack project.