Policy

Turn off sensors

Windows 11 25H2

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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

ClassUser
CategoryWindows Components > Location and Sensors
Supported onAt least Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7

Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, Windows7, Windows8, Windows81, WindowsRT, WindowsRT81, WindowsServer2008, WindowsServer2012, WindowsServer2012R2, WindowsServer2016

This policy setting turns off the sensor feature for this computer. If you enable this policy setting, the sensor feature is turned off, and all programs on this computer cannot use the sensor feature. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, all programs on this computer can use the sensor feature.

Internal name
DisableSensors_1
Policy ID
547cae9504fe
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

Registry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled value
HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\LocationAndSensors\DisableSensorsREG_DWORD
1
0

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