Turn off the display of snippets in Content view mode
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User
Category
Windows Components > File Explorer
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 you to turn off the display of snippets in Content view mode. If you enable this policy setting, File Explorer will not display snippets in Content view mode. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, File Explorer shows snippets in Content view mode by default.

Internal name
HideContentViewModeSnippets
Policy ID
97b0be2736b8
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

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

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