Policy

Prohibit User Installs

Windows 11 25H2

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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

ClassComputer
CategoryWindows Components > Windows Installer
Supported onMicrosoft Windows XP or Windows 2000 with Windows Installer v2.0

Supported OS tags: Windows2000, WindowsXP

This policy setting allows you to configure user installs. To configure this policy setting, set it to enabled and use the drop-down list to select the behavior you want. If you do not configure this policy setting, or if the policy setting is enabled and "Allow User Installs" is selected, the installer allows and makes use of products that are installed per user, and products that are installed per computer. If the installer finds a per-user install of an application, this hides a per-computer installation of that same product. If you enable this policy setting and "Hide User Installs" is selected, the installer ignores per-user applications. This causes a per-computer installed application to be visible to users, even if those users have a per-user install of the product registered in their user profile.

Internal name
MSI_DisableUserInstalls
Policy ID
5ccfdcbe5496
Elements
1

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

No explicit registry values are set for enabled or disabled states.

Policy elements

Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.

ElementTypeRegistry mappingConstraints & behavior
User Install Behavior:
ID MSI_DisableUserInstallsBox
enum
HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Installer\DisableUserInstalls
Type REG_DWORD
Options: Allow User Installs (0), Hide User Installs (1)

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