Windows 10: Turn On or Off Automatic Updates for Offline Maps in Windows 10

How to: Turn On or Off Automatic Updates for Offline Maps in Windows 10

How to Turn On or Off Automatic Updates for Offline Maps in Windows 10


Windows 10 comes with the Maps app preinstalled. Maps is your guide to everywhere. Find your way with voice navigation and turn-by-turn driving, transit, and walking directions. Search for places to get directions, business info, and reviews. Download maps to use when youre offline. Tour the world virtually with aerial imagery and 360 degree street-level views. Plus, you get the same experience across all your Windows 10 PCs and phones.

If you would like to search for places and get directions in the Maps app even when you are not connected to the Internet, you should download maps for offline use.

If you like, you can turn on automatic updates for maps. Maps will only be automatically updated when your device is plugged in (AC power) and you're not on a metered connection.

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off to automatically update offline maps for all users in Windows 10.


CONTENTS:

• Option One: To Turn On or Off Automatic Map Updates in Settings
• Option Two: To Turn On or Off Automatic Map Updates using a REG file

OPTION ONE [/i] To Turn On or Off Automatic Map Updates in Settings
1. Open Settings, and click/tap on the Apps icon.

2. Click/tap on Offline maps on the left side, and turn On (default) or Off Automatically update maps under Map updates on the right side for what you want. (see screenshot below)

3. When finished, you can close Settings if you like.









OPTION TWO [/i] To Turn On or Off Automatic Map Updates using a REG file

*note You must be signed in as an administrator to be able to do this option.

The downloadable .reg files below will modify the DWORD value in the registry key below.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Maps

AutoUpdateEnabled DWORD

0 = Off
1 = On

[/note]
1. Do step 2 (on) or step 3 (off) below for what you would like to do.


2. To Turn On Automatic Map Updates
*note This is the default setting.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Turn_On_Automatically_Update_Maps.reg

Download

3. To Turn Off Automatic Map Updates
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Turn_Off_Automatically_Update_Maps.reg

Download
4. Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5. Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

6. When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

7. If you like, you can now delete the downloaded .reg file.

That's it,
Shawn


Related Tutorials

• How to Enable or Disable Automatic Updates for Offline Maps in Windows 10
• How to Download Offline Maps in Windows 10
• How to Check for Map Updates of Offline Maps in Windows 10
• Turn On or Off Download Offline Maps over Metered Connections in Windows 10

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Disable Offline Maps in Windows 10


Hello Techy,

In addition to bro67's post.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/5...dows-10-a.html

 

NO Maps Offline

Hi FrancoTerracciano,

Follow these steps on how to use Offline Maps:

• Download maps before you go offline. Then later, search for places and get directions in the Maps app, even without Internet access.
  
• On your Windows 10 PC or phone, select Settings
  > Apps, and then choose
  Offline maps.
• Select Download maps and follow the instructions.
• On Start
  , select Maps to search for places and get directions on the downloaded maps.
  

Let us know how it works.

Regards.

 

Windows 10 Anniversary Update Issues

Problems with W10 Anniv auto update:

Mom's: (x58 Xeon 5677) Windows Defender was not turned back on automatically (it was "on" in the 1511 edition) and she had a Trojan. Full system scan to eradicate.
Her Epson printer was knocked off, had to uninstall by Device Manager pull USB cable and reconnect cable. W10 did the rest.

Step-mom's: (HP pre built) Windows Defender not turned back on by default. Her USB Seagate Expansion Drive 2Tb was offline so all backup routines were halted. Had to rerun backup plan. Had her do a full virus scan.

Step-dad's: (Dell Optiplex tweaked upgrades) Windows Defender not turned back on by default. Full Scan.

 

Disable Offline Map downloads and updates


Yeah, that disables the auto download and update....which is good. I'm trying to take it a step further by greying out the options for offline maps altogether.

With that GPO set users can still manually download...

 

Disable Offline Maps in Windows 10


I've only found a GPO to disable automatic map updates.