Policy

Turn off the Windows Welcome Experience

This policy setting lets you turn off the Windows Spotlight Windows Welcome experience. This feature helps onboard users to Windows, for instance launching Microsoft Edge with a web page highlighting new features. If you enable this policy, the Windows Welcome Experience will no longer display when there are updates and changes to Windows and its apps. If you disable or do not configure this policy, the Windows Welcome Experience will be launched to help onboard users to Windows telling them about what's new, changed, and suggested.

Policy
PackMicrosoft Windows
CategoryWindows Components / Cloud Content
Policy ID4223f0ec02af
Internal nameDisableWindowsSpotlightWindowsWelcomeExperience

Registry

Copy registry mappings

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

Policy notes

This policy setting lets you turn off the Windows Spotlight Windows Welcome experience. This feature helps onboard users to Windows, for instance launching Microsoft Edge with a web page highlighting new features. If you enable this policy, the Windows Welcome Experience will no longer display when there are updates and changes to Windows and its apps. If you disable or do not configure this policy, the Windows Welcome Experience will be launched to help onboard users to Windows telling them about what's new, changed, and suggested.

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