{"id":15529,"date":"2020-02-04T09:42:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T09:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=15529"},"modified":"2020-02-04T09:46:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T09:46:10","slug":"show-windows-10-version-and-build-number-on-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/show-windows-10-version-and-build-number-on-desktop\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Show Windows 10 Version and Build Number on the Desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are various ways to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/find-what-version-build-number-of-windows-10\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">determine the build number of Windows 10<\/a> running on your computer, but none of them are more straightforward than displaying Windows 10 build information as watermark on the desktop. In this tutorial we&#8217;ll show you a hidden registry trick which can make Windows 10 show the edition and build number at the bottom right of your desktop.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Show Windows 10 Version and Build Number on the Desktop<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Press the Windows key + R together to open the Run command, type <strong>regedit<\/strong> and hit Enter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/regedit.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"206\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9183\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/6-ways-to-open-registry-editor-in-windows-10\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Registry Editor<\/a> is open, navigate to: <code>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Control Panel\\Desktop<\/code>. Double-click on the DWORD value <strong>PaintDesktopVersion<\/strong> in the right-hand pane.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/PaintDesktopVersion-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"592\" height=\"295\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/PaintDesktopVersion-1.png 592w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/PaintDesktopVersion-1-300x149.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Change the default value from 0 to 1 and click <strong>OK<\/strong>. Log off or restart your computer. After that, you will see the Windows version and build number being displayed at the bottom right of the screen just above the system tray.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/show-windows-10-version-on-desktop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"208\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/show-windows-10-version-on-desktop.png 413w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/show-windows-10-version-on-desktop-300x151.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are various ways to determine the build number of Windows 10 running on your computer, but none of them are more straightforward than displaying Windows 10 build information as watermark on the desktop. In this tutorial we&#8217;ll show you a hidden registry trick which can make Windows 10 show the edition and build number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894],"tags":[4416],"class_list":["post-15529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","tag-show-windows-version-on-desktop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15529"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15536,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15529\/revisions\/15536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}