Turn off the Windows Welcome Experience

Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, WindowsServer2016

This policy setting lets you turn off the Windows Spotlight Windows Welcome experience. This feature helps onboard users to Windows, for instance launching Microsoft Edge with a web page highlighting new features. If you enable this policy, the Windows Welcome Experience will no longer display when there are updates and changes to Windows and its apps. If you disable or do not configure this policy, the Windows Welcome Experience will be launched to help onboard users to Windows telling them about what's new, changed, and suggested.

This policy has no additional user input fields.

• User
  Configure Windows spotlight on lock screen

  At least Windows 10
• Computer
  Do not show Windows tips

  At least Windows 10
• User
  Do not suggest third-party content in Windows spotlight

  At least Windows 10
• User
  Do not use diagnostic data for tailored experiences

  At least Windows Server 2016, Windows 10 Version 1703
• User
  Enable Organizational Messages

  At least Windows 11
• User
  Turn off all Windows spotlight features

  At least Windows 10
• Computer
  Turn off cloud consumer account state content

  At least Windows Server 2016, Windows 10 Version 1909
• Computer
  Turn off cloud optimized content

  At least Windows Server 2016, Windows 10 Version 1909
• Computer
  Turn off Microsoft consumer experiences

  At least Windows 10
• User
  Turn off Spotlight collection on Desktop

  At least Windows 10
• User
  Turn off Windows Spotlight on Action Center

  At least Windows Server 2016, Windows 10 Version 1703
• User
  Turn off Windows Spotlight on Settings

  At least Windows Server 2016, Windows 10 Version 1803