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For testing purposes only watermark after installing Vista SP1

An odd thing happened to me after installing the Vista SP1 RTM.  I have a laptop running Vista Ultimate.  The OS was installed using my MVP Team Suite license.  I use this machine as my primary development box.  After installing Vista SP1 I had two interesting things show up on the desktop:

1.  "Test Mode" showed up in each corner of the desktop - Run Bcdedit.exe /set TESTSIGNING OFF using an elevated prompt to turn off test for signed drivers.

2.  "for testing purposes only." and build number - This one I am not sure why it has appeared in the corner.  My previous version did not.  The only thing I could find was a very lengthy step by step process which seemed way to complicated.

So I don't have the warm fuzzy feeling that I've been hearing everyone talk about after installing Vista SP1.  I don't feel like I'm running the RTM build.  The messages I see make me feel like its the RC.  I hope there nothing else that I can't see broken.  I didn't realize that I was signing up for the beta test!

Print | posted on Sunday, March 02, 2008 9:33 PM | Filed Under [ Vista ]


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# re: For testing purposes only watermark after installing Vista SP1

Open up Regedit and navigate to the following keys:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SystemCertificates\CA\Certificates\FEE449EE0E3965A5246F000E87FDE2A065FD89D4]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SystemCertificates\ROOT\Certificates\2BD63D28D7BCD0E251195AEB519243C13142EBC3]

And delete the pair of them, reboot and lo and behold dodgy testing message has vanished!
3/19/2008 9:17 AM | Jamie Seviour

# re: For testing purposes only watermark after installing Vista SP1

cool it works 4/28/2008 2:23 PM | mrhide

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