Turn off program inventoryID: oval:gov.nist.usgcb.windowsseven:def:257 | Date: (C)2012-04-13 (M)2023-07-04 |
Class: COMPLIANCE | Family: windows |
This policy controls the state of the Program Inventory collector in the system.
The PDU inventories programs and files on the system and sends information about those files to Microsoft. This information is used to help associate files to programs and diagnose application compatibility problems.
The PDU is ON by default.
If you enable this policy setting, inventory collection will be turned off and data will not be sent to Microsoft. Enabling this setting also disables collection of installation data through PCA.
If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, inventory collection will be turned on.
Fix:
(1) GPO: Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Application Compatibility\Turn off Program Inventory
(2) REG: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\AppCompat!DisableInventory
Platform: |
Microsoft Windows 7 |