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by zrs_12

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Apparently my friend downloaded a hack to remove the watermark, expiration, and send feedback button for Windows 7 build 7000 and ran it. Now, I am missing the watermark and the send feedback button, and it remains to be seen if the expiration crack worked. Anyway, it's fine that the watermark is gone and I don't care if it expires or not, but I want the feedback button back. I agreed to help improve Windows 7 and need to send some feedback. Having the button right there was very convenient. So, does anyone know how I can get this back?

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by older mycroft

What in hell did you hope to achieve without any watermark ?

What expiration - it's a Beta !!??

What kind of BOZO panics because they can't send feedback that they 'agreed to', after having cracked the watermark and expiration date ? :D

by zrs_12

First of all, I didn't install the crack, but I guess the watermark removal is for aesthetics. It expires August 1, 2009 according to Microsoft. I'm not panicking, I just would like to have easy access to sending feedback because I want Windows 7 to fair better than Vista.
Why would I want to reinstall? That's a lot of trouble for something so small. If I reinstalled, I would then have to reinstall everything I have put on Windows 7. That's too much of a hassle for me.

by rob miners

Copy and paste this into notepad and save it to the desktop as sf.reg. Double click on it and merge it.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"FeedbackToolEnabled"=dword:0000000
"FeebackToolEnabled"="1"

Keep us informed as to your progress if you require further assistance.

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by zrs_12

No luck with that. I ran it, it exited successfully, I logged off and logged back in, but the button is still missing.

by rob miners

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"FeedbackToolEnabled"=dword:00000003

by rob miners

right click on the desktop and select New Shotcut and paste this line into the box and name it FeedBack.

%SystemRoot%\system32\control.exe -name Microsoft.FeedbackTool

by peconet tietokoneet

Step One - Switch off Windows UAC (User Account Control)

- Start Menu -> Control Panel -> User Accounts

- Find User Account Control, you?ll then be shown a vertical slider, move the slider to the bottom of the screen.

- Restart your computer.

Step Two - Rename user32.dll.mui

- Start Menu -> Computer -> C Drive -> Windows -> System32 -> en-US

- Your browser should now be at C:\Windows\System32\en-US\.

- Locate user32.dll.mui, right click it.
Select the ?Security? tab, click the ?Advanced? button and then visit the ?Owner? tab.

- Select the ?Edit? button and make yourself the owner of the file.

- Exit that dialog, saving changes and return to the original properties dialog.

- Click the ?Edit?? button, select Users and give yourself Full Control by selecting all the checkboxs.

- Exit properties saving changes.

- Rename user32.dll.mui to user32-backup.dll.mui.

Step Three - Finishing up

- Users of regular 32bit systems download http://www.doeswhat.com/tutorialwhat/downloads/fixed_user32_dll_mui.zip
Users of 64bit systems download x64 http://www.doeswhat.com/tutorialwhat/downloads/fixed_user32_dll_mui_x64.zip
This zip file contains a patched user32.dll.mui file.

- Extract the user32.dll.mui file and place it in the folder en-US (C:\Windows\System32\en-US\).

- Restart your system. Enjoy.

by zrs_12

Thanks man. That worked flawlessly. I appreciate the help.

by rob miners

happens again. If you have Partitioned your drive go to Control Panel Backup and Restore and create an Image Backup. Save it to another Partition and you will be able to completely recover your System.

by zrs_12

Yeah, I already have 4 partitions (XP, Win 7, and 2 linux) so I created a set of 3 DVDs as my back-up.

by rob miners

you are thinking ahead. If W7 was a clean install on a raw hard drive you would have gotten a 200Mb Recovery Partition that would allow you to restore from Backup but you will have to use the W7 DVD to access your Recovery DVD's now. Not to worry at least you have them. Don't try to install anything that isn't compatable with Vista or you will break it.

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