Windows 10: My location settings are greyed out.

I am trying to turn on my location, but my choices are greyed out so I can't change them even though I am logged on as administrator. How can I turn these on or am I missing something?

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Location service is greyed out

Hi Shahriar,

Thank you for responding.

Sorry for the inconvenience caused for you, I suggest you to try the below troubleshooting steps and check If it helps.

Step 1: Steps to turn on the Location settings.

• Login as an administrator.
• Press Windows key, type Location settings and select
  Change location settings.
• Check whether Location for this device is On by clicking on
  Change.
• Also turn on Location as well.

Step 2: And as you are unable to set the service Geolocation service to automatic, I suggest you to run SFC scan and check.

System File Checker is a utility in Windows that allows users to scan for corruptions in Windows system files and restore corrupted files.

Follow the below steps:

• 
  Right click on the Start button, click on
  Command Prompt (Admin).
  
• 
  Type “sfc /scannow” without the quotes and hit
  Enter.
  
• 
  After the scan, restart the computer and check for the issue.
  

Try to set the service to automatic by following the steps provided in the above post by Praveen Venugopal.

Hope it helps. Kindly update the status of the issue, we will be happy to help you.

 

Location setting

Hi,



This issue could occur due to incorrect location settings or it would depend on your IP address. We suggest you to check the location settings of your PC, and check if it helps. Here are the steps:

• Click the Start button, and select Settings.
• Go to Privacy, and choose Location.
• Make sure that the Location service is On.

If issue persists, then it has something to do with your IP address. It’s because the location detected depends on the location set on your IP address.



Let us know how it goes.

 

Location services is greyed and unchangeable from location settings after update

Hello Anirudh,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

As per the issue description you are facing issue with location settings on your computer. You are unable to activate location settings. You have also mentioned that you are unable to access the location settings. It's greyed out unclickable in the notifications
buttons.

I would suggest you to try the steps provided below and see if it helps you to fix the issue.

Method 1

Try the steps provided in the thread mentioned below and see if it helps you to resolve the issue.

Can't turn on location service


Method 2

If issue persists try to create new user profile as an administrator and see if issue persists in new user profile. For creating new user profile you may refer to the steps provided in the article mentioned below.

• Press Windows key + R
• Type control userpasswords2 and click OK
• Click on add under users tab
• Click the option, "Sign-in without a Microsoft account
  
• Click on Local account
• Choose a name for the account
• Add password if you want to
• Apply and click OK.

For more clarification you may refer to the article mentioned below.



Create a local user account in Windows 10

Additional information:

For more information you may refer to the article mentioned below.

Windows 10 location service and privacy: FAQ

Do get back and let us know the status of the issue, we will be glad to help you further. We, at Microsoft strive towards excellence.



Regards,