Do not show unread message count on Windows Welcome screen
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User
Category
Microsoft Outlook 2016 > Miscellaneous
Supported on
Windows7

By default, Windows queries Outlook for the unread message count for users and displays the result on the Windows Welcome screen. By enabling this setting, you can change this behavior so that Windows does not provide this feature on the Welcome screen.

Internal name
L_DisableWindowsFriendlyLogonMailQuery
Policy ID
26f21ace2ed8
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
User
Path
software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\outlook
Value name
dontupdatefriendlylogon
REG_DWORD
HKCU
1
HKCU
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · User
Path
software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\outlook
Value name
dontupdatefriendlylogon
Hive
HKCU
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

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