know about the version of the windows

Want to know about the version of the windows that you use?

You can check it out by right clicking on computer icon and choose properties!

But instead you can always see it in lower right corner of your desktop. Lets now perceive a quick trick on doing this in your windows platform!

Steps to show windows version on Desktop

1) Go to Start –> Run or you can choose Windows Key + R !

2) Type Regedit and press Enter.

3) If it is asking permissions then allow them .(for WINDOWS 7 and WINDOWS 8)

4) In Registry editor, on the left pane navigate to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel as

5) Then select “Desktop” in left pane and search for “PaintDesktopVersion” in right pane and double-click it.

6) A dialog will pop-up, modify the “Value Data” field from 0 to 1 as shown

7) Now Refresh your Desktop and you will find Windows version displayed on the desktop.

8) If it is not displaying you can restart the Windows.

9) If you wish to remove the watermark, just change the “Value Data” field back to 0.

Hope you like it. :)

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