Policy

Enable Font Providers

Microsoft Windows

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Enable Font Providers
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

Computer
Category
Network > Fonts
Supported on
At least Windows Server 2016, Windows 10

Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, WindowsServer2016

This policy setting determines whether Windows is allowed to download fonts and font catalog data from an online font provider. If you enable this policy setting, Windows periodically queries an online font provider to determine whether a new font catalog is available. Windows may also download font data if needed to format or render text. If you disable this policy setting, Windows does not connect to an online font provider and only enumerates locally-installed fonts. If you do not configure this policy setting, the default behavior depends on the Windows edition. Changes to this policy take effect on reboot.

Internal name
EnableFontProviders
Policy ID
f476d1320fcf
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
Computer
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System
Value name
EnableFontProviders
REG_DWORD
HKLM
1
HKLM
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · Computer
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System
Value name
EnableFontProviders
Hive
HKLM
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.

This policy has no additional user input fields.