Watermark re-appears after explorer.exe restart and after reboot

[marss72]

I know it's not persistent, but you could make an installer, that would schedule a task in the task scheduler on the boot. I don't know how to fix restarting explorer, but I restart explorer very often...

[machineonamission]

Hmmm, having an installer that adds it as a boot process is a good idea. I originally tried to modify system files but turns out windows does NOT like you doing that
I was planning at some point to add a thing that monitors explorer for restarts, there just isn’t an easier way that I know of than constantly checking for explorer’s PID which would use resources in the background

[marss72]

Don't modify any system files — risking errors, or even making device unbootable. Monitoring is a good idea, but you have to make it very lightweight. I have never coded anything with hooks so I don't know if it's possible, but you may could hook some process and if it close or open, call this watermark remover.

[riverar]

@reticivis-net Alternatively, you can get the desktop hwnd, use it to get a process handle (GetProcessHandleFromHwnd), then wait on it (OpenProcess(SYNCHRONIZE, ...), WaitForSingleObject).

[machineonamission]

@reticivis-net Alternatively, you can get the desktop hwnd, use it to get a process handle (GetProcessHandleFromHwnd), then wait on it (OpenProcess(SYNCHRONIZE, ...), WaitForSingleObject).

oh that's perfect! thanks!

[boiswoe]

use automation:
https://github.com/boiswoe/uwd2w

[oblominsk]

looks like Win 11 29531.1000 - INSIDER. this method doesn't work.
It would be good if this sign was deleted forever, and not through the Task Scheduler.

[dawidulu97]

this is good but after the restart again show the test mode ..

[machineonamission]

this is good but after the restart again show the test mode ..

Yes that's normal. Did you read the readme?

[dawidulu97]

I did but didn't notice anything about the reappear

[machineonamission]

I did but didn't notice anything about the reappear

It says

UWD2 DOES NOT persist between explorer.exe or system restarts. See why below. For best results, add UWD2 as a startup program.