Removal of Activation Overlay/Watermark in unactivated RTM. Need Help!

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  1. Stannieman

    Stannieman MDL Guru

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    #261 Stannieman, Aug 12, 2012
    Than it's not good, 24% means it's looping...
    But we must also be concerned about memory leaks, not only about cpu usage.
     
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  2. ret4rt

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    #262 ret4rt, Aug 12, 2012
    I can confirm cpu usage around 24% of explorer.exe with UnknownRE x64 patch.
    Watermark is gone after 5+ hours but it seems to be causing a loop to explorer.exe unfortunately.
     
  3. Stannieman

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  4. UnknownRE

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    #264 UnknownRE, Aug 12, 2012
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    VM1 (x64) (2 GB total): 4% explorer 0 % 14.4MB VM2 (x86) (2GB total): 99% explorer 91.8% 16.9 MB HOST (x64)(16 GB total) 2% 14.2 MB so the x86 is looping in my vm (x64 seems to run fine)
     
  5. ret4rt

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    #265 ret4rt, Aug 12, 2012
    I've tried the one on your signature. Replaced the x64 dll on system32 folder. Although it does not show the watermark after 5+ hours it caused 25% cpu usage on explorer. Dunno maybe others should test it too might be my bad luck :)
     
  6. Belarathon

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    #266 Belarathon, Aug 12, 2012
    Same here.
     
  7. UnknownRE

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    #267 UnknownRE, Aug 12, 2012
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    tablet cpu usage 47.2 % on x64 (so they both have a leak / loop) I will look into it EDIT: ok patched it and now the x86 machine is looping all the way ^^
     
  8. win_seven

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    #268 win_seven, Aug 12, 2012
    1% for me

    My cpu shows only 1% for me all are Ok past 4 hours.
     
  9. dummekuehe

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    #269 dummekuehe, Aug 12, 2012 (OP)
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  11. Mehtab

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    #271 Mehtab, Aug 12, 2012
    I can confirm 100% that my cpu usage is normal for x64.
     
  12. win_seven

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    #272 win_seven, Aug 12, 2012
    I confirm

    Yes i confirm. there is not transcoded background
     
  13. Sliden

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    #273 Sliden, Aug 12, 2012
    on my vm, Enterprise N x64 seems to run fine.
     
  14. UnknownRE

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    #274 UnknownRE, Aug 12, 2012
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    If I restart my VM / tablet then the CPU usage is back to normal. It think it happens after 7 hours that the explorer is leaking (Im going to try it on a clean installation as well )
     
  15. dummekuehe

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    #275 dummekuehe, Aug 12, 2012 (OP)
    how long did you wait before you checked this?
    because the cpu spiking starts when it usually would have started showing the activation overlay
     
  16. win_seven

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    #276 win_seven, Aug 12, 2012
    the samme for me

    same for me now
    four hours after having used the pasth 64 of UnknownRE
    the process of cpu rises to 50% for Explorer
    and
    msoobe is not running in task manager
    is this normal?
     
  17. Mehtab

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    #277 Mehtab, Aug 12, 2012
    Yea it was more than 3 hours
     
  18. trichard

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    #278 trichard, Aug 13, 2012
    Confirm this will no longer work ?


    ReArm for 30days.

    1. regedit HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionSoftwareProtectionPlatform and change the value for SkipRearm to 1
    2. run "slmgr -rearm" (note! this will also reset the above mentined value to zero again)
    3. Now the 30 day activating time is reset to 0 once more (You can only do this reset 7 times)
     
  19. ODY123

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    #279 ODY123, Aug 13, 2012
    After 5 hours of running, I can confirm that woot332's patched file works without high cpu usage, the other file caused more harm than good (60% cpu on windows explorer) - I am running on Win8 Pro Rtm x86.

    Thanks woot332!
     
  20. Mehtab

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    #280 Mehtab, Aug 13, 2012
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    It seems to increase CPU usage so UnknownRE's x64 patch is not good
    Can there be some tool that checks for a thread in process and suspends it?
     
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