Policy

Prevent the wizard from running.

Microsoft Windows

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Prevent the wizard from running.
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

Category
Windows Components > Add features to Windows 10
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

By default, Add features to Windows 10 is available for all administrators. If you enable this policy setting, the wizard will not run. If you disable this policy setting or set it to Not Configured, the wizard will run.

Internal name
Disabled
Policy ID
b952fb768af5
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
Path
Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\WAU
Value name
Disabled
REG_DWORD
HKLM
1
HKCU
1
HKLM
0
HKCU
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · Both
Path
Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\WAU
Value name
Disabled
Hive
HKLM
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0
Hive
HKCU
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.

This policy has no additional user input fields.