Policy

Disable hardware acceleration for Office in Application Guard

Microsoft Office 5532.1000

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Policy overview

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ClassUser
CategoryMicrosoft Office 2016 > Security Settings > Trust Center > Application Guard
Supported onWindows 10

Supported OS tags: Windows10

This policy setting controls whether Office in Application Guard uses hardware or software acceleration to render graphics. If you enable this setting, Application Guard uses software-based (CPU) rendering and won’t load any third-party graphics drivers or interact with any connected graphics hardware. Important: Be aware that disabling or not configuring this policy setting with potentially compromised graphics devices or drivers might pose a risk to the user's device. If you disable or don't configure this setting, Application Guard uses Hyper-V to access supported, high-security rendering graphics hardware (GPUs). These GPUs improve rendering performance and battery life while using Application Guard, particularly for video playback and other graphics-intensive operations. If you disable or don't configure this setting without connecting any high-security rendering graphics hardware, Application Guard will automatically revert to software-based (CPU) rendering. Note: This policy setting only applies to Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise.

Internal name
L_TurnOffHardwareAccelerationInApplicationGuard
Policy ID
19eef90e6f9a
Elements
0

Registry values

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Registry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled value
HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\security\applicationguard\disablehardwareaccelerationREG_DWORD
1
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