How To Show Or Hide The Windows Version On Desktop Of Windows XP

How  To Show Or Hide The Windows Version On Desktop Of Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7

This will enable or disable the showing of windows version at the bottom of right side corner just above the taskbar. Windows version will describe the which version of ‘Operating System’ you are currently using.

To Show The Windows Version On Desktop just follow these steps:

Step 1. Open registry editor (Type “regedit” without quotes on start search box in RUN window and enter).

Step 2. Now navigate to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

Step 3. On the right side, locate “PaintDesktopVersion”.

Step 4. Right click of mouse there and select modify.

Step 5. Now change the value in value data field on the top pop up window to ‘1’.

Step 6. Now click ‘OK’.

Step 7. Now close the registry editor and all the other open window and restart your system.

That’s it after restart you will find the windows version on your desktop.

To Hide The Windows Version On Desktop just follow these steps:

Step 1. Open registry editor (Type “regedit” without quotes on start search box in RUN window and enter).

Step 2. Now navigate to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

Step 3. On the right side, locate “PaintDesktopVersion”.

Step 4. Right click of mouse there and select modify.

Step 5. Now change the value in value data field on the top pop up window to ‘0’.

Step 6. Now click ‘OK’.

Step 7. Now close the registry editor and all the other open window and restart your system.

That’s it after restart you will find the windows version will hide on your desktop again.