Policy

Turn off Spotlight collection on Desktop

Windows 11 25H2

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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

ClassUser
CategoryWindows Components > Cloud Content
Supported onAt least Windows 10

Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT

This policy setting removes the Spotlight collection setting in Personalization, rendering the user unable to select and subsequentyly download daily images from Microsoft to desktop. If you enable this policy, "Spotlight collection" will not be available as an option in Personalization settings. If you disable or do not configure this policy, "Spotlight collection" will appear as an option in Personalization settings, allowing the user to select "Spotlight collection" as the Desktop provider and display daily images from Microsoft on the desktop.

Internal name
DisableSpotlightCollectionOnDesktop
Policy ID
62f37116c200
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

Registry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled value
HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\CloudContent\DisableSpotlightCollectionOnDesktopREG_DWORD
1
0

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