ConfigurO 3.5

Interface

• The desktop corner notices now have switches. Three of them: the build
  stamp above the clock, the Windows 11 "System requirements not met" nag, and
  the activation reminders. This is the ground Universal Watermark Disabler
  covers, reached the way a configuration tool should reach it — every one is a
  documented value that reverts cleanly. UWD's own methods do not survive
  contact with servicing: the original swaps modified copies of basebrd.dll.mui
  and shell32.dll.mui over the shipped files, uwd2 walks Microsoft's symbols to
  find CDesktopWatermark::s_DesktopBuildPaint and writes a ret over it in the
  running explorer.exe, and pr701's build COM-hijacks ExplorerFrame. An
  sfc /scannow, a feature update or a reboot undoes each of those.
• What that deliberately does not cover, and why. The Test Mode and Secure
  Boot watermarks are painted with no registry value behind them, so hiding them
  needs one of the methods above. Test Mode gets the honest alternative instead —
  a "Turn off test signing" switch under System that removes the watermark by
  removing the reason for it. Under Secure Boot bcdedit refuses the change,
  which is the correct answer rather than something to work around.
• The activation switch silences notices and nothing else. The licensing
  state is untouched; an unlicensed machine stays unlicensed and keeps every
  restriction that comes with that. Both values it writes are Microsoft's own
  volume-activation switches for sites that do not want the reminders on screen.

Privacy

• Manifest V2 extensions can be kept loadable in Edge and Chrome. Both
  browsers are retiring MV2, which is what most full-strength content blockers
  are still built on. This is a browser policy rather than a telemetry switch, so
  it is its own row rather than something riding along inside one.
• Edge third-party search-result telemetry is now covered by the existing
  Edge telemetry switch, along with one more Start-menu content-delivery slot.

Fixed

• Two Edge SmartScreen values were being written as subkeys. "Disable Edge
  telemetry" set Software\Microsoft\Edge\SmartScreenEnabled and
  …\SmartScreenPuaEnabled as keys carrying a default value, where Edge reads
  them as values under Software\Microsoft\Edge. The tweak silently did
  nothing on both counts and left two stray keys behind; it now writes the values
  and clears the keys an earlier version created.
• Turning off "Disable Start menu ads" left two settings stuck. The revert
  passed full HKEY_CURRENT_USER\… paths to a helper that takes a hive-relative
  one, so the open failed and the swallowed exception hid it. The suggested-app
  notifications and the Phone Link opt-in stayed off with no switch left in the
  UI to explain why.
• Image File Execution Options blocks were never lifted. Switching off the
  telemetry-tasks or Chrome telemetry tweaks re-enabled their scheduled tasks but
  left the IFEO debugger entries in place, so CompatTelRunner.exe,
  DeviceCensus.exe and software_reporter_tool.exe went on being killed on
  launch with nothing in the UI still claiming responsibility. Both reverts now
  clear their own blocks.