Policy

Don't launch privacy settings experience on user logon

When logging into a new user account for the first time or after an upgrade in some scenarios, that user may be presented with a screen or series of screens that prompts the user to choose privacy settings for their account. Enable this policy to prevent this experience from launching. If this policy is enabled, the privacy experience will not launch for newly-created user accounts or for accounts that would have been prompted to choose their privacy settings after an upgrade. If this policy is disabled or not configured, then the privacy experience may launch for newly-created user accounts or for accounts that should be prompted to choose their privacy settings after an upgrade.

Policy
PackMicrosoft Windows
CategoryWindows Components / OOBE
Policy IDfe5ca1c132ac
Internal nameDisablePrivacyExperience

Registry

Copy registry mappings

HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\OOBE\DisablePrivacyExperience (enabled) = 1
HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\OOBE\DisablePrivacyExperience (disabled) = 0
HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\OOBE\DisablePrivacyExperience (enabled) = 1
HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\OOBE\DisablePrivacyExperience (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

When logging into a new user account for the first time or after an upgrade in some scenarios, that user may be presented with a screen or series of screens that prompts the user to choose privacy settings for their account. Enable this policy to prevent this experience from launching. If this policy is enabled, the privacy experience will not launch for newly-created user accounts or for accounts that would have been prompted to choose their privacy settings after an upgrade. If this policy is disabled or not configured, then the privacy experience may launch for newly-created user accounts or for accounts that should be prompted to choose their privacy settings after an upgrade.

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