Policy

Always use automatic language detection when indexing content and properties

Microsoft Windows

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Always use automatic language detection when indexing content and properties
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Computer
Category
Windows Components > Search
Supported on
Microsoft Windows 8 or later

Supported OS tags: Windows8

This policy setting determines when Windows uses automatic language detection results, and when it relies on indexing history. If you enable this policy setting, Windows will always use automatic language detection to index (as it did in Windows 7). Using automatic language detection can increase memory usage. We recommend enabling this policy setting only on PCs where documents are stored in many languages. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, Windows will use automatic language detection only when it can determine the language of a document with high confidence.

Internal name
AlwaysUseAutoLangDetection
Policy ID
13d107c5d6cc
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

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

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