Prevent CD and DVD Media Information Retrieval
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

User
Category
Windows Components > Windows Media Player
Supported on
Windows Media Player 9 Series and later.

This policy setting allows you to prevent media information for CDs and DVDs from being retrieved from the Internet. If you enable this policy setting, the Player is prevented from automatically obtaining media information from the Internet for CDs and DVDs played by users. In addition, the Retrieve media information for CDs and DVDs from the Internet check box on the Privacy Options tab in the first use dialog box and on the Privacy tab in the Player are not selected and are not available. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users can change the setting of the Retrieve media information for CDs and DVDs from the Internet check box.

Internal name
PreventCDDVDMetadataRetrieval
Policy ID
83a9e3324c0a
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

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

Policy elements

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