After completing my usual monthly updates for Windows 10 Pro 22H2, I was scrolling through GP to close up the sections I’d opened to enable the updates to be installed. Since I’ve installed the November updates, my build number is now 19045.5131.
As I was scrolling to the top of the Windows Components section (Computer Configuration>Admin Templates>Windows Components) I happened to notice a section titled “Cloud Content”. Upon further inspection, I saw 4 settings, all dealing in one way or another with cloud-based content within Windows. After reading the descriptions, I promptly set two of them to “Enabled” to reduce the amount of cloud content offered, and left the other two alone because, according to their descriptions, they are only for Enterprise and Education SKUs, neither of which I have.
The two I enabled are entitled “Turn off cloud optimized content”, and “Turn off cloud consumer account state content”.
From the sounds of their descriptions, I supposedly won’t get any more web-based suggestions, nor will I get any web-based help if I were to click on a link within Windows to ask for web-based help.
Are these presumptions correct, or did I shut off something that may come in handy in the near future?
I’m definitely trying to avoid any type of AI from sinking its’ mitts into my system as much as possible, and thought that these policies might be another way to get a possibly smaller version of CoPilot onto consumers’ systems.
