Changing the watermark?

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bluetransformer
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Changing the watermark?

Post by bluetransformer »

I know there is a watermark on the bottom right corner that displays some system info. Any way I can change it? Thanks! ;) Also I am building with Ninja.
hbelusca
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Re: Changing the watermark?

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The watermark on the bottom right is just meant for the devs (and testers) to quickly see which version of ReactOS they are running (it's not meant to be a full sysinfo stuff as I can see sometimes on linux desktops).
The watermark string is built by an internal function GetSystemVersionString() : https://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos/tru ... 75314#l249
and is painted on the desktop by an internal function IntPaintDesktop() : https://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos/tru ... 5314#l1183
(this is where the different choices of fonts to display it, are made) (note: both functions are inside win32k).
Its display (on the desktop) is controlled by two registry values, the ones described at http://winaero.com/blog/a-new-way-to-di ... r-desktop/
(note that even if the article uses Windows 8 as an example, the very same stuff works on ReactOS and on Windows XP / Windows Server 2003).
Blackcrack
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Re: Changing the watermark?

Post by Blackcrack »

and i guess it is enabled by a registry string ?! :)
so should be also possible to disable ... i guess..
like in xp

best regards
blacky
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