Windows 10: Location Services Disabled and Grayed out in Windows 11 24H2

I am my own admin on private machine. Nothing works to turn it onI have check Services and geolocation is "on" but still nothing will allow me to turn on location services.I use Windows Defender as my anti virus -- so it is not a third party anti-virus programme.Windows 11 Home on Dell Inspiron laptop. - not Windows 11 Pro!

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Location Services Disabled and Grayed out

Hi, I'm having a problem with location services being disabled. In Settings/Privacy/Location, "Allow access to location on this device" is off, and the "Change" button is grayed out. "Allow apps to access your location" is also set to "Off" and grayed out. Above everything, there is a message, "*Some of these settings are hidden or managed by your organization."

So, some policy or registry setting is blocking me from enabling location services. But what? After lots of web searching, I've tried the following. I've done all of these things successfully and none has made any difference:

1. Ensured that this registry key is set to "Allow":

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\CapabilityAccessManager\ConsentStore\location

2. Ensured that the Geolocation service is running and set to Automatic

3. Deleted this folder in the registry:
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\LocationAndSensors

4. Deleted this key in the registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\lfsvc\TriggerInfo\3

5. Ensured that the three policies in this folder are all not configured:

Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Location and Sensors

6. Ensured that the policy "Turn off Windows Location Provider" is not configured in this folder:

Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Location and Sensors\Windows Location Provider

One or more of these approaches seems to have worked for everyone but me. Help! And please don't say "reinstall Windows."

Windows 10 Pro 21H2, Asus x64 desktop with 32GB of RAM

 

Location icon grayed out and not working in windows 10 creators update

We suggest that you check if the following service is enabled to activate the Location icon:

• Press Windows key + R.
• Type service.msc in the Run dialog box and select
  Services.
• Right-click on Windows Location Framework Service and click
  Stop.
• Once done, right-click again on Windows Location Framework Service and click
  Start.
• If the service is enabled, try disabling and re-enabling and check if the issue persists.

Let us know how it goes after performing the suggested steps.

 

Factory reset Windows 11 24H2 (build 26100.863)

Hi, I am Dave, I will help you with this.

There are no currently listed problems resetting version 24H2 of Windows 11 and no specific steps you need to perform, are you experiencing any problems with that insider build that is causing you to perform a Windows reset?