Policy

Turn off location scripting

Microsoft Windows

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Turn off location scripting
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

Computer
Category
Windows Components > Location and Sensors
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 turns off scripting for the location feature. If you enable this policy setting, scripts for the location feature will not run. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, all location scripts will run.

Internal name
DisableLocationScripting_2
Policy ID
f67af243ba65
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
Computer
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\LocationAndSensors
Value name
DisableLocationScripting
REG_DWORD
HKLM
1
HKLM
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · Computer
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\LocationAndSensors
Value name
DisableLocationScripting
Hive
HKLM
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

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