Windows 10: How to Enable or Disable Automatic Learning in Windows 10

Microsoft along with many other tech giants is trying to make Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning adjust according to the user. Be its speech recognition, Automatic Learning, etc. Microsoft is trying to embed as many features in their Windows OS as they can.

Automatic Learning allows the computer to keep an eye on your handwriting and vocabulary in order to alter your message accordingly. This feature is good for the most part as it can save you a lot of time. In this article, we are going to see how to enable or disable Automatic Learning in Windows 10.

Enable or Disable Automatic Learning in Windows 10


These are the ways by which you can enable or disable Automatic Learning in Windows 10.

1. Using Group Policy Editor
2. Using Registry Editor

Let us talk about them in detail.

1] Using Group Policy Editor




The Local Group Policy Editor in Windows 10 allows the users to alter many different policies and one can easily enable or disable Automatic Learning in Windows 10 with it. So, without further ado, let us check, how to enable or disable Automatic Learning in Windows 10 with Local Group Policy Editor.

Launch Local Group Policy Editor by searching it out of the Start Menu and navigate to the following location.

User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Control Panel > Regional and Language Options > Handwriting personalization

Now, double-click on “Turn off automatic learning”, select Enabled, and click Apply > Ok. This way you can disable the Automatic Learning feature.

To enable go to the same location, just select Disabled after double-clicking “Turn off automatic learning”.

2] Using Registry Editor




If you have a Windows 10 Home, you won’t have Group Policy Editor. In that case, you can use Registry Editor for the same. Let us see, how to enable or disable Automatic Learning with Registry Editor.

Launch Registry Editor by searching it out of the Start Menu and navigate to the following location.

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft

If you can find “InputPersonalization”, click on it.

If not, right-click on Microsoft and select New > Key. And then name the newly created Key, InputPersonalization.

Right-click on InputPersonalization , select New > Dword (32-bit), and name it “RestrickImplicitTextCollection”.

Similarly, create another value and name it “RestrictImplicitInkCollection”.

Now, double-click on both the values simultaneously and set the Value data to 1, and click Ok.

This way you have disabled Automatic Learning in Windows 10.

To enable it, set the Value data of both of these values to 0.

Restart your computer.

That’s it.

Read Next: How to stop Microsoft from tracking you on Windows 10.


This article How to Enable or Disable Automatic Learning in Windows 10 first appeared on TheWindowsClub.com.

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Here is what I think we all want:

1. Notify only (never download or install without first allowing step 2)
2. Allow easy option to deselect updates (especially drivers) that we don't want or would prefer to update manually.

Basically, give us back the Windows Update we had, or the same options.

I've read this tutorial and all the posts along with Windows Update Automatic Updates - Enable or Disable in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums and all the posts there.

I'm having a hard time putting all the comments together into a cohesive state so that I can create a behavior similar enough to the old Windows Update to make me happy. If anyone can provide a step by step to provide this, I would be much appreciative.

 

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Hello Clint,

Your screenshot shows the "Some settings are managed by your organization" at the top indicating that you have successfully enabled the group policy to disable automatic updates.

Were you having some other issue with this as well?