Hide Privacy Tab
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User
Category
Windows Components > Windows Media Player > User Interface
Supported on
Windows Media Player 9 Series and later.

This policy setting allows you to hide the Privacy tab in Windows Media Player. If you enable this policy setting, the "Update my music files (WMA and MP3 files) by retrieving missing media information from the Internet" check box on the Media Library tab is available, even though the Privacy tab is hidden, unless the "Prevent music file media information retrieval" policy setting is enabled. The default privacy settings are used for the options on the Privacy tab unless the user changed the settings previously. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the Privacy tab is not hidden, and users can configure any privacy settings not configured by other polices.

Internal name
HidePrivacyTab
Policy ID
1e3ececeac7a
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

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

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