Policy

Troubleshooting: Allow users to access and run Troubleshooting Wizards

Microsoft Windows

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Troubleshooting: Allow users to access and run Troubleshooting Wizards
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

Computer
Category
System > Troubleshooting and Diagnostics > Scripted Diagnostics
Supported on
At least Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7

Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, Windows7, Windows8, Windows81, WindowsRT, WindowsRT81, WindowsServer2008, WindowsServer2012, WindowsServer2012R2, WindowsServer2016

This policy setting allows users to access and run the troubleshooting tools that are available in the Troubleshooting Control Panel and to run the troubleshooting wizard to troubleshoot problems on their computers. If you enable or do not configure this policy setting, users can access and run the troubleshooting tools from the Troubleshooting Control Panel. If you disable this policy setting, users cannot access or run the troubleshooting tools from the Control Panel. Note that this setting also controls a user's ability to launch standalone troubleshooting packs such as those found in .diagcab files.

Internal name
ScriptedDiagnosticsExecutionPolicy
Policy ID
f284ea503f35
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
Computer
Path
SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\ScriptedDiagnostics
Value name
EnableDiagnostics
REG_DWORD
HKLM
1
HKLM
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · Computer
Path
SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\ScriptedDiagnostics
Value name
EnableDiagnostics
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.