Policy

Preview pane location

Enabling this policy allows you to set the location of the preview pane in the Desktop Search results. You can also turn off the preview pane. The four options are: - Auto - Right - Bottom - Off You should consider enabling this policy to turn off the preview pane if your environment does not support Office XP or later. The full preview pane functionality is only available for Office documents in Office XP or later. When this policy is disabled or not configured, the preview pane shows automatically to the right of the Desktop Search results, and your users can choose the location of the preview pane

Policy
Pack Microsoft Windows
Category Windows Components / Search
Policy ID 5df7d85b05cc
Internal name PreviewPaneLocation

Registry

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HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\PreviewPaneLocation

Policy notes

Enabling this policy allows you to set the location of the preview pane in the Desktop Search results. You can also turn off the preview pane. The four options are: - Auto - Right - Bottom - Off You should consider enabling this policy to turn off the preview pane if your environment does not support Office XP or later. The full preview pane functionality is only available for Office documents in Office XP or later. When this policy is disabled or not configured, the preview pane shows automatically to the right of the Desktop Search results, and your users can choose the location of the preview pane

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