Policy

Turn off location

This policy setting turns off the location feature for this computer. If you enable this policy setting, the location feature is turned off, and all programs on this computer are prevented from using location information from the location feature. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, all programs on this computer will not be prevented from using location information from the location feature.

Policy
Pack Microsoft Windows
Category Windows Components / Location and Sensors
Policy ID c431ef127868
Internal name DisableLocation_2

Registry

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HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\LocationAndSensors\DisableLocation (enabled) = 1
HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\LocationAndSensors\DisableLocation (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

This policy setting turns off the location feature for this computer. If you enable this policy setting, the location feature is turned off, and all programs on this computer are prevented from using location information from the location feature. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, all programs on this computer will not be prevented from using location information from the location feature.

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