Windows 10: Watermark showing on desktop screen; downgraded W10 Enterprise Retail, back to W10 Home...

I have -2- persistent problems that are difficult to find specific information on:


1)Expired windows store token certificate (2018), reappears continually (after shutdown) with full-rights access (all check-boxes) for certificate purpose. A replacement token certificate exists, so why is the expired token reappearing after deletion? A copy of the expired token certificate is in the 'untrusted' cert. folder.


2)I recently had a faulty motherboard replaced on my laptop. The repair depot gave me a copy of W10 Enterprise Retail. I know from the tech. support listings that any major change of CPU in hardware will cause activation problems. I evaluated & tested features of W10 Enterprise Retail. I reinstalled W10 Home x64 afterward using ESD from MS.

I checked the Registry following the available instructions for such an issue, though it is not effective for the specifics of this problem: watermark shows home edition as evaluation/testing purposes only. Will I have to reinstall using O.E.M. copy of W10 Home x64 on USB?


Both problems appear to be related although my product shows as activated without error code!


Any help would be appreciated!


Brad


Lenovo X1 Extreme

W10, Version 1903 - 18362.418

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Windows 10 Enterprise Edition Activation Watermark

Hi,

I've activated my W10 Enterprise Edition but the watermark at the bottom right corner of my desktop won't go away and the remaining days counter keeps going down. How do I fix that?

Thanks

 

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The screen refreshing laptop complained initially that the BIOS was not compatible with W10. I rectified this by updating the BIOS. W10 then went ahead with the installation. Upon completion the screen refreshing began and could not access the screen for
downgrading as the screen refreshed before I could click the relevent menu. I could not access the file menu and I could not access the control manager (W10 Equivalent) and none of the Apps worked. As for the other laptop I could access the apps but could
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Leaving both Laptops on overnight and rebooting the following day I was able to access the link for downloading, the refreshing held long enough for me to click and proceed with the downgrade.

The other Laptop I was able to click on the link to begin the downgade but after ascertaining that other parts were non operational.

I am reluctant to continue with W10 as I now have both Laptops working with W7 except that one now has the DVD inoperational which I will now have to try a rectify.

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Don't expect the budget here will allow building anything from scratch. I have no parts to contribute to this build and would have to buy everything. I'm mostly looking for suggestions for pre-made options that could be found on the used market. If you have a better idea please feel free to expand upon it. Very open to ideas and have some time to make this happen now that the laptop is usable. Gaming is pretty far from my bailiwick and I've seen some stellar budget builds ideas here in the past. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Rough idea of specs

• Intel i5 4590 or AMD equivalent
• 8 GB RAM
• HDMI on MB or through discrete GPU
• Capable of playing a modern game at lower settings
• Fairly cool and power efficient
• Couple hundred dollars max
• Stable