How to Disable or Enable Tailored Experiences in Windows 11

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The post guides on controlling tailored experiences in Windows 11. Microsoft uses diagnostic data and feedback for security, updates, troubleshooting, and enhancing product experiences. Thus, tailored experiences use diagnostic data for personalized tips, ads and recommendations. The settings for enabling or disabling tailored experiences are located in Windows’ system settings and can also be managed…

This post shows students and new users steps to turn tailored experiences on or off in Windows 11.

Microsoft collects information about your Windows devices through Diagnostic data and feedback.

When you enable sending diagnostic data and feedback in Windows, Microsoft uses that diagnostic information to keep Windows secure and up to date, troubleshoot problems, and make product improvements.

There’s also a related feature called Tailored experiences that lets you use your Windows diagnostic data to offer personalized tips, ads, and recommendations to enhance Microsoft experiences.

In diagnostic data collection settings, if Required is chosen, personalization is based on information about your device, its settings, capabilities, and whether it performs appropriately. 

Enabling or disabling tailored experiences in Windows can help personalize the user experience. When enabled, Windows uses data and information about the user’s behavior and preferences to provide personalized content and suggestions.

This can include recommendations for apps, news, and other content the user may be interested in. However, some users may prefer not to have their data used this way, and disabling tailored experiences can help protect their privacy.

Ultimately, enabling or disabling tailored experiences in Windows depends on the user’s preferences and priorities.

How to turn Off or On tailored experiences in Windows 11

As mentioned above, users can enable or disable Tailored experiences in Windows 11.

Here’s how to do it.

First, open the Windows Settings app.

Then, select Privacy & security on the left and the Diagnostics & feedback tile on the right to expand it.

Next, select the “Tailored experiences” tile to expand it. Then, toggle the switch button to the On position to enable it.

To disable it, toggle the button to the Off position.

Exit the Settings app when you’re done.

Enable or disable Tailored experiences using group policy

Another way to disable or enable “Tailored experiences” is to use the Local Group Policy Editor.

First, open the Local Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc). (Search for “Edit group policy”) on the Start menu.

Then, navigate the folders below:

User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Cloud Content

In the Group Policy details pane on the right, locate and double-click the “Do not use diagnostic data for tailored experiences” settings.

On the “Do not use diagnostic data for tailored experiences” window, set the option to Not ConfigureEnabled, or Disabled.

  • Not Configured (default) – Same as Disabled.
  • Enabled – Windows will not use diagnostic data from this device (this data may include browser, app and feature usage, depending on the “diagnostic data” setting value) to customize content shown on lock screen, Windows tips, Microsoft consumer features and other related features.
  • Disabled – Microsoft will use diagnostic data to provide personalized recommendations, tips and offers to tailor Windows for the user’s needs, and make it work better for them.

Click OK to save your changes. You may have to reboot your device for the settings to apply.

Turn on or off Tailored experiences using the Windows Registry Editor

Yet another way to enable or disable “Tailored experiences” is to use the Windows Registry editor.

First, open the Windows Registry and navigate to the folder key path below.

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\CloudContent

Next, double-click the DisableTailoredExperiencesWithDiagnosticData (REG_DWORD) name on the CloudContent key’s right pane to open it.

Then, enter a value 1 to disable Tailored experiences.

If you do not see the “DisableTailoredExperiencesWithDiagnosticData” item, right-click a blank area and create a new DWORD (32-bit) registry item.

Then, enter the name “DisableTailoredExperiencesWithDiagnosticData” and enter a value 1 to disable it.

To restore the default behavior and enable Tailored experiences, delete the “DisableTailoredExperiencesWithDiagnosticData” name created above.

Save your changes and restart your computer.

That should do it!

Conclusion:

This post showed you how to enable or disable tailored experiences with diagnostic data collection in Windows 11. Please use the comment form below if you find any errors above or have something to share.

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