How do you delete or hide the message “Activate Windows – Go to Settings to Activate Windows” in Windows 10

If you stress you to see the Watermark message in the lower right corner of the screen, in the tutorial you will see how you delete or hide the message “Activate Windows – Go to Settings to Activate Windows” in Windows 10.

As the message suggests, it appears on the versions of Windows 10 that are not activated with a license. I mean Windows 10 is used with limitations.

To the more recent versions of Windows. The message that announces that you have to activate the copy of Windows 10 appears good in the lower right corner of the screen and through a dialog box. It was relatively simple to ignore and continue the activity on the PC.

A simple “Close” In the dialog box “Your Windows license will expire soon“, and the message disappears for a period of time.

We say that “it appears good”, because Microsoft has changed this notice once with newer versions of Windows 10. Now, the message that announces that we have to activate the copy of Windows 10, appears in the corner from the bottom, but persists over the open applications. Which is disturbing to users and makes them ask: “How do you delete or hide the message “Activate Windows – Go to Settings to Activate Windows” in Windows 10?”

It is easy to understand that “Activate Windows – Go to Settings to Activate Windows” appears because we don't have a valid Windows license, because The test period has expired Or because I haven't bought the product yet.

So the best solution would be to Buy a Windows 10 License to activate the copy installed on the operating system. If you still want to postpone this moment and not to buy the Windows 10 license immediately, you can delete or hide the message “Activate Windows” appeared in the right-hand corner of the work screen (Desktop).

How do you delete or hide the message “Activate Windows – Go to Settings to Activate Windows” in Windows 10

To eliminate the message that urges you to activate the copy of Windows 10 installed on your computer, follow the steps below. You do not have to have knowledge of computers to complete the steps in this tutorial.

1. Open a notepad in which you add the code below:

 @echo off
 taskkill /F /IM explorer.exe
 explorer.exe
 exit

2. Save the new text file with extension “.bat“. For example: watermark.bat. To do this, select “All Files” at “Save as type:”.

3. Double click on the newly created file. Will open Command Prompt, in which the message will appear: “SUCCESS: The process “explorer.exe” with PID (No) has been terminated“.

In some situations you may need to run the file .bat with administrator rights. Right click on file and click “Run as Administrator…”.

After you have received confirmation in Command Prompt, you managed to hide the message “Activate Windows – Go to Settings to Activate Windows” from the lower right -hand corner of the screen, on Windows 10.

It is very possible that after the Windows 10 operating system will receive new updates, this message will reappear. However, it is a solution to eliminate the license activation message in Windows 10.

You may be interested in the following tutorials about Windows licenses:

• Fix “Your Windows License Will Expire Soon” – Windows 10 Activated “Windows is activated using your organization’s activation service”
• How to transfer Windows 11, 10 (Product Key) license from one PC to another
• How to add Windows 11 license to personal Microsoft account - Link Windows Product Key at Microsoft Account
• How can we upgrade free from Windows 7, 8, Windows 8.1 to Windows 10

If the message is recurred after a Windows Update, resume the steps in this tutorial.