Policy

Turn off Spotlight collection on Desktop

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.

Policy
Pack Microsoft Windows
Category Windows Components / Cloud Content
Policy ID 62f37116c200
Internal name DisableSpotlightCollectionOnDesktop

Registry

Copy registry mappings

HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\CloudContent\DisableSpotlightCollectionOnDesktop (enabled) = 1
HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\CloudContent\DisableSpotlightCollectionOnDesktop (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

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.

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