{"id":1280,"date":"2013-12-01T13:00:19","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T07:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.58.113.91\/blog\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2021-07-13T12:54:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T07:24:04","slug":"display-build-info-version-windir-windows-8-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/display-build-info-version-windir-windows-8-10\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Display Build Info, Edition and WinDir Path on the Desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a neat little registry edit for Windows 8 and Windows 10 systems that shows the build information and Windows version on the lower right corner of the desktop as a watermark.<\/p>\n<p>The good old <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/previous-versions\/windows\/it-pro\/windows-server-2003\/cc782257(v=ws.10)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">PaintDesktopVersion<\/a> registry edit still works in Windows 8 and Windows 10, but there is another way to display the same information in addition to the Windows installation directory name.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"rp\"><strong>RELATED:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/find-windows-10-build-version-edition-bit\/\">How to Find Your Windows 10 Build Number, Version, Edition and Bitness<\/a><\/div>\n<h2>Display Build Info, Edition, WinDir Path on the Desktop<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Press <kbd>Win<\/kbd> + <kbd>R<\/kbd>, type <code>regedit.exe<\/code> and click OK.<\/li>\n<li>Navigate to the following key:\n<pre>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Windows<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li>Create a new DWORD (32-bit) Value named <code>DisplayVersion<\/code><\/li>\n<li>Set the value data for <code>DisplayVersion<\/code> to <code>1<\/code><\/li>\n<li>Exit the Registry Editor.<\/li>\n<li>Press <kbd>F5<\/kbd> to refresh the desktop.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div class=\"qt\">\n<h3>Alternatively, using command-line:<\/h3>\n<p>Right-click Start, click Command Prompt (Admin).<\/p>\n<p>Type this command and press <kbd>Enter<\/kbd>:<\/p>\n<pre>REG ADD \"HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Windows\" \/v DisplayVersion \/t REG_DWORD \/d 1 \/f<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>Press <kbd>F5<\/kbd> to refresh the desktop. Your desktop should now show the build and edition at the lower right corner of the screen.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/archived2\/w8-displayversion.jpg\" width=\"421\" height=\"262\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Windows 10, it also shows the internal code name (<code>vb<\/code> for <em>Vibranium<\/em>, <code>rs<\/code> for <em>RedStone<\/em>, etc.) along with the <a title=\"How to Find Your Windows 10 Build Number, Version, Edition and Bitness\" href=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/find-windows-10-build-version-edition-bit\/\">build<\/a> and release numbers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20194\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/displayversion-w10-desktop.png\" alt=\"displayversion paint desktop version\" width=\"422\" height=\"170\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; whereas the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winxptutor.com\/paintdesktopversion.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PaintDesktopVersion<\/a> value, when enabled, displays only the build information and Windows version as below:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/archived2\/w8-displayversion2.jpg\" width=\"421\" height=\"262\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>(If you want to display additional system configuration information on the desktop, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sysinternals\/downloads\/bginfo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">BgInfo<\/a> from Windows Sysinternals.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a neat little registry edit for Windows 8 and Windows 10 systems that shows the build information and Windows version on the lower right corner of the desktop as a watermark. The good old PaintDesktopVersion registry edit still works in Windows 8 and Windows 10, but there is another way to display the &#8230; <a title=\"How to Display Build Info, Edition and WinDir Path on the Desktop\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/display-build-info-version-windir-windows-8-10\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about How to Display Build Info, Edition and WinDir Path on the Desktop\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[441],"class_list":["post-1280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-10","category-windows-8","tag-registry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1584,"url":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/find-windows-10-build-version-edition-bit\/","url_meta":{"origin":1280,"position":0},"title":"How to Find Your Windows 10\/11 Build Number, Version, Edition and Bitness","author":"Ramesh","date":"February 6, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The Build Number, Version, \"Bit\"ness (32-bit or 64-bit) of your Windows installation can be determined using many ways, and here are some of the methods listed.\u00a0 Screenshots are from a Windows 10 PC, but most of the information applies to all versions of Windows, including Windows 11. 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