desktop watermark on windows 7 final
Sunday, November 15, 2009 by JavaFiend | Discussion: Personal Computing
I recently got my windows 7 disk for my sager laptop. I did a clean install and all was good. A few days ago, the desktop watermark appeated, windows 7 build 7600. Should that be there? I suppose I could run the same thing that got rid of that on the beta's, but why did it appear? Anyone have any ideas, has anyone else seen this?
Thanks.
Reply #2 Monday, November 16, 2009 8:54 AM
That is what I thought. It wasn't there originally, for probably 2 weeks or so. Then, bam, I booted up one day and there it was. Not sure if an update possibly did it? I haven't looked yet at the recent ones I allowed. I may uninstall those to see if it goes away.
Reply #3 Monday, November 16, 2009 9:00 AM
Have you activated it?
If not I think the version may show on the desktop.
Reply #5 Monday, November 16, 2009 9:55 AM
Been a while since I played around in XP, but as I recall there was a 'show version on desktop' function somewhere in the options. It may be that this function is in Win 7 also (not that I've checked/seen it) and possibly it was inadvertantly activated.
That ^ or maybe this v
If not I think the version may show on the desktop.
Reply #6 Monday, November 16, 2009 9:55 AM
Run Command Prompt as Administrator. Type: mcbuilder.exe and press "Enter". Wait until process will be finished (it may take about 1 minute). Then reboot your computer...
Hope you will not see the watermark on the desktop. 
Reply #7 Monday, November 16, 2009 9:04 PM
It is activated, and I wasn't using any extra programs that I have used in the past. Not to say that isn't it. I will poke around, and try what Vad_M said. Thanks for the input.
I will report back.
I also bought the family pack upgrade dvd so I will be installing 7 on a few computers, so I will see if it happens again to me.
Reply #9 Wednesday, November 18, 2009 11:26 PM
Hope you will not see the watermark on the desktop.
Tried this too, nothing. It sat there a bit, I rebooted, but still there. Anyone else have a suggestion?
Reply #10 Thursday, November 19, 2009 12:44 AM
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7install/thread/9d689c72-760a-438c-a655-e5cee6857c3b
Does that work?
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Reply #1 Sunday, November 15, 2009 11:54 PM
I don't have a watermark... I don't think it should be there on the release version...