Removing Windows Vista Beta trademark text on desktop?

[Noted]

Is there a way to remove the "Windows Vista (TM) Beta 2 Evaluation Copy. Build 5384" text from the bottom right of the desktop?

 

[balamw]

It's usually a registry key

HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop\PaintDesktopVersion set it to 0 to disable.

Works for XP and 2K IIRC, but could work on Vista.

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[Noted]

It's already set to 0 😕

 

[Noted]

Anyone else?

 

[4God]

Remove Windows Vista. 😀

 

[Noted]

Someone must know.. I've seen people with screenshots and its not there

 

[balamw]

It seem you can remove it with a resource editor, google for reshack and vista, but it seems that introduces some instabilities so be really careful!

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[Stevey]

Okay Im using 5472.5 so i dunno if it works on 5384 just right clikc on your desktop click 'View' and de-select 'Show desktop icons'

 

[7on]

people could just be editing the screen capture files with photoshop to remove the beta text.

 

[crees!]

A more interesting question is why does it need to be removed?

 

[projectle]

Did you restart the system after editing the registry?

That particular key is only accessed by winlogon.dll