While at 1st glance this may seem like a GEEK thing ( and I say that with the utmost respect because I are one ), this can actually be quite useful if you work with several systems, and you want to be able to tell at a glance if you’re working on a Professional or Server system, what the build number is or even if you were successful in an upgrade. WARNING REGISTRY EDIT AHEAD WARNING Open the Registry Editor and expand the branch HKEY_CURRENT_USERControlPanelDesktop Double-click the value PaintDesktopVersion Set the value to 1. (Make sure PaintDesktopVersion is a REG_DWORD value and not a REG_SZ value. If it is a REG_SZ value, delete the value and re-create it as a REG_DWORD and then set it to 1.) Thats it !

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