Policy

Turn off Application Footprint

This policy controls the state of Application Footprint. Application Footprint monitors the sampled collection of registry and file usage to help diagnose compatibility problems. If you enable this policy, Application Footprint will not be run. If you disable or do not configure this policy, Application Footprint will be turned on.

Policy
Pack Microsoft Windows
Category Windows Components / App and Device Inventory
Policy ID 305f14dc3452
Internal name TurnOffApplicationFootprint

Registry

Copy registry mappings

HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\AppCompat\DisableApplicationFootprint (enabled) = 1
HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\AppCompat\DisableApplicationFootprint (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

This policy controls the state of Application Footprint. Application Footprint monitors the sampled collection of registry and file usage to help diagnose compatibility problems. If you enable this policy, Application Footprint will not be run. If you disable or do not configure this policy, Application Footprint will be turned on.

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