Policy

Turn off Program Compatibility Assistant

Microsoft Windows

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Turn off Program Compatibility Assistant
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

User
Category
Windows Components > Application Compatibility
Supported on
At least Windows Vista

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

This setting exists only for backward compatibility, and is not valid for this version of Windows. To configure the Program Compatibility Assistant, use the 'Turn off Program Compatibility Assistant' setting under Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Application Compatibility.

Internal name
AppCompatTurnOffProgramCompatibilityAssistant_1
Policy ID
9108ec2c2c7f
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
User
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\AppCompat
Value name
DisablePCA
REG_DWORD
HKCU
1
HKCU
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · User
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\AppCompat
Value name
DisablePCA
Hive
HKCU
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

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