Prevent automatic discovery of feeds and Web Slices
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Key metadata and intent for this policy.

Category
Windows Components > RSS Feeds
Supported on
At least Internet Explorer 7.0

This policy setting prevents users from having Internet Explorer automatically discover whether a feed or Web Slice is available for an associated webpage. If you enable this policy setting, the user does not receive a notification on the toolbar that a feed or Web Slice is available. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the user receives a notification when a feed or Web Slice is available and can click the feed discovery button.

Internal name
Disable_Feed_Discovery
Policy ID
e3a2b40458f7
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

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

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