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Can Windows 10's "Activate windows" watermark create burn in on displays?

MyName13
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Any static image can cause that. Why you'd leave your Windows unactivated is beyond me anyway.

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Just now, NelizMastr said:

Any static image can cause that. Why you'd leave your Windows unactivated is beyond me anyway.

I'm waiting university so I can get it from project Dreamspark.

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2 minutes ago, MyName13 said:

I'm waiting university so I can get it from project Dreamspark.

Ok. It won't burn in that quickly unless you have your PC and display turned on 24/7 and you'd have an OLED display.

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It’s not going to cause issues. From my experience, it goes behind something like Chrome. Even if it was there all the time, your monitor isn’t always sitting on the desktop. I’ve had a monitor running for about a week showing nothing but a static Linux command line interface. Nothing wrong with it. 

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5 hours ago, NelizMastr said:

Ok. It won't burn in that quickly unless you have your PC and display turned on 24/7 and you'd have an OLED display.

It has never been turned on for more than 4 hours but...

 

5 hours ago, Jamiec1130 said:

It’s not going to cause issues. From my experience, it goes behind something like Chrome. Even if it was there all the time, your monitor isn’t always sitting on the desktop. I’ve had a monitor running for about a week showing nothing but a static Linux command line interface. Nothing wrong with it. 

...watermark disappears in programs that work in full screen mode, some games, for example, work in true full screen while some only work in windowed full screen (interestingly some windowed full screen games are as difficult to tab-out as true full screen games).

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