Policy

Hide previous versions of files on backup location

Microsoft Windows

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Hide previous versions of files on backup location
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

Computer
Category
Windows Components > File Explorer > Previous Versions
Supported on
Supported Windows Vista through Windows 7

Supported OS tags: Windows7

This policy setting lets you hide entries in the list of previous versions of a file in which the previous version is located on backup media. Previous versions can come from the on-disk restore points or the backup media. If you enable this policy setting, users cannot see any previous versions corresponding to backup copies, and can see only previous versions corresponding to on-disk restore points. If you disable this policy setting, users can see previous versions corresponding to backup copies as well as previous versions corresponding to on-disk restore points. If you do not configure this policy setting, it is disabled by default.

Internal name
HideBackupEntries_2
Policy ID
9d466a7e3bde
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
Computer
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\PreviousVersions
Value name
HideBackupEntries
REG_DWORD
HKLM
1
HKLM
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · Computer
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\PreviousVersions
Value name
HideBackupEntries
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.