You can now turn off Spotlight collection setting in Personalization.It is recommended that you use the ' Apply layered order of evaluation for Allow and Prevent device installation policies across all device match criteria' policy setting when possible.

The ' Prevent installation of devices not described by other policy settings' policy setting has been replaced by the ' Apply layered order of evaluation for Allow and Prevent device installation policies across all device match criteria' policy setting for supported target Windows 10 versions.

You can now configure whether sideloaded apps' ability to auto-update in the background and whether the system can archive infrequently used apps.

You can now control whether Windows apps can take screenshots of various windows or displays.

The following Group Policy settings were added in Windows 10, version 21H2, or modified to an extent that warrants listing them here: In terms of new features, there isn’t anything to be excited about the Windows 10, version 21H2 as Microsoft's primary focus is the improvement of the overall OS quality and Windows 10 hardening instead of implementation of new features which are so meaningless, that they could literally make your brain hurt. So, aside from the odd pre-planned holiday, leaving me no time to make weak jokes for the benefit of my very limited readership, I promise to update this blog on a more regular basis.Īnyhow, let's get into it. Where this new-found desire for achievement has come from is hard for me to place. As if out of nowhere, what is this new blog post, full of all the joys of autumn? Yes, after a sporadic, semi-weekly service throughout the past decade, in which this website was resolutely dropped to the very bottom of my work schedule for reasons ranging from laziness, a lack of imagination, taking care of the family, impromptu holidays interfering with writing schedules and even more laziness, I am looking to overcome my enigmatic past to reassert itself as the market-leading online resource based on technology that was looked on as being slightly outdated some 10 years ago.

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