[HELP] How to REMOVE the "activate windows" watermark in windows10 ?

Windows 10 22H2 triggered a watermark saying "activate windows" at the bottom right of the display.

This watermark is always visible on top of any other software after a systemuptime of around 3 hours.

I could NOT find a working option to remove the stupid watermark on the clearnet and asking on forums results in censorship and account closure.

I'm not interested into solutions like katiborus KMS that require an internet connections, i'm not here to activate windows.

My question is how to get rid of the idiotic "activate windows" watermark permanently.

Has anyone made a script that achieves what i want? Possibly via powershell/cmd/registry/grouppolicy?

Look up "Microsoft Activation Scripts" or https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts/blob/master/MAS/All-In-One-Version-KL/MAS_AIO.cmd Make sure you right click run as Adminsitrator

Pretty sure that watermark is baked into the kernel. No way to remove it without loading signed kernel mode drivers. If you don't want to activate Windows either with KMS or HWID then there's not much you can do.

Thank you for sharing this, however i'm having problems with this tool.

The HDWID activation v2.9 results with a "failed to connect" error.

My firewall network monitoring software shows connections attempts to login.live.com and slscr.update.microsoft.com coming from systemdnsclient.

Was hoping for an offline solution as i very much DO NOT like my personal computer making any connections to any microsoft service.

The device i'm using did not make any connections to MS so far, i would like to keep it this way.

Is there another way? Just to remove the watermark without a license activation? Or an offline license activation with no MS connections?

Then use the KMS server method. If you are running antivirus you'll need to turn it off and exempt the files. That'll run a local service that'll be checked every 30 days.

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I have no clue what this is. Beware.