How to disable a Cortana with .bat for netlogon

Question

Guys, good morning!

I have a demand to disable the cortana for all users on my network, for that, I would need to create a .bat to use in netlogon.

I even managed to create one that disables via .reg, but it needs to be run as ADM and thus, it is not working with netlogon.

Would you have any suggestion/solution to create or edit my .bat?

Here's what I did and it worked only locally and as adm:

@Echo off

reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies"

reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft"

reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows"

reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search"

reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search" /v AllowCortana /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

exit

thanks!

Answer 1

Hi ,

If you are trying to write to any registry keys besides HKEY CURRENT USER you must have local administrator rights. As far as I know, there is no way around this.

Best Regards,
Candy

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