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• Advice
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In this article, wikiHow will guide you to temporarily turn off watermarks and notifications related to Windows activation. While you can change the value in the Services menu or adjust the Windows Registry to temporarily disable it, activating Windows is the only way you can turn these messages off.

Steps

Method 1 of 3: Use Services

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   . Click the Windows logo located in the lower left corner of the screen. The Start menu will open.

2. 

   . Click the Windows logo located in the lower left corner of the screen.

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   to the left of the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" folder. This folder is located in the upper left side of the Registry window.
   • If there exists an indented column just below "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE", then this directory is already extended.

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   . Click the Windows logo located in the lower left corner of the screen.

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   (Establish). Click the gear icon in the left part of the Start window.

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   , already Power

   

   (Off / On), Restart (Reboot). After the reboot is complete, on your computer will be Windows activated. advertisement

Advice

• The paid version of Windows has much more customization options than the free trial version.

Warning

• Avoid software that claims to completely disable Windows activation messages: they are often malware on your computer (and even if they aren't, they're also illegal).