Category: At least Windows Vista

This policy setting turns off the automatic learning component of handwriting recognition personalization. Automatic learning enables the collection and storage of text and ink written by the user in order to help adapt handwriting recognition to the vocabulary and handwriting style of the user. Text that is collected includes all outgoing messages in Windows Mail and MAPI enabled email clients as well as URLs from the Internet Explorer browser history. The information that is stored includes word frequency and new words not already known to the handwriting recognition engines (for example proper names and acronyms). Deleting email content or the browser history does not delete the stored personalization data. Ink entered through Input Panel is collected and stored. Note: Automatic learning of both text and ink might not be available for all languages even when handwriting personalization is available. See Tablet PC Help for more information. If you enable this policy setting automatic learning stops and any stored data is deleted. Users cannot configure this setting in Control Panel. If you disable this policy setting automatic learning is turned on. Users cannot configure this policy setting in Control Panel. Collected data is only used for handwriting recognition if handwriting personalization is turned on. If you do not configure this policy users can choose to enable or disable automatic learning either from the Handwriting tab in the Tablet Settings in Control Panel or from the opt-in dialog. This policy setting is related to the “Turn off handwriting personalization” policy setting. Note: The amount of stored ink is limited to 50 MB and the amount of text information to approximately 5 MB. When these limits are reached and new data is collected old data is deleted to make room for more recent data. Note: Handwriting personalization works only for Microsoft handwriting recognizers and not with third-party recognizers.

This policy setting removes the option to change the user’s menus and dialogs (UI) language from the Language and Regional Options control panel. This policy setting is used only to simplify the Regional Options control panel. If you enable this policy setting the user does not see the option for changing the UI language. This does not prevent the user or an application from changing the UI language programmatically. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting the user sees the option for changing the UI language. Note: Even if a user can see the option to change the UI language other policy settings can prevent them from changing their UI language.

This policy setting removes the option to change the user’s geographical location (GeoID) from the Region settings control panel. This policy setting is used only to simplify the Regional Options control panel. If you enable this policy setting the user does not see the option to change the GeoID. This does not prevent the user or an application from changing the GeoID programmatically. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting the user sees the option for changing the user location (GeoID). Note: Even if a user can see the GeoID option the “Disallow changing of geographical location” option can prevent them from actually changing their current geographical location.

This policy turns off the highlight misspelled words option. This does not however prevent the user or an application from changing the setting programmatically. The highlight misspelled words option controls whether or next spelling errors in typed text will be highlighted. If the policy is Enabled then the option will be locked to not highlight misspelled words. If the policy is Disabled or Not Configured then the user will be free to change the setting according to their preference. Note that the availability and function of this setting is dependent on supported languages being enabled.

This policy turns off the autocorrect misspelled words option. This does not however prevent the user or an application from changing the setting programmatically. The autocorrect misspelled words option controls whether or not errors in typed text will be automatically corrected. If the policy is Enabled then the option will be locked to not autocorrect misspelled words. If the policy is Disabled or Not Configured then the user will be free to change the setting according to their preference. Note that the availability and function of this setting is dependent on supported languages being enabled.

This policy turns off the insert a space after selecting a text prediction option. This does not however prevent the user or an application from changing the setting programmatically. The insert a space after selecting a text prediction option controls whether or not a space will be inserted after the user selects a text prediction candidate when using the on-screen keyboard. If the policy is Enabled then the option will be locked to not insert a space after selecting a text prediction. If the policy is Disabled or Not Configured then the user will be free to change the setting according to their preference. Note that the availability and function of this setting is dependent on supported languages being enabled.

This policy turns off the offer text predictions as I type option. This does not however prevent the user or an application from changing the setting programmatically. The offer text predictions as I type option controls whether or not text prediction suggestions will be presented to the user on the on-screen keyboard. If the policy is Enabled then the option will be locked to not offer text predictions. If the policy is Disabled or Not Configured then the user will be free to change the setting according to their preference. Note that the availability and function of this setting is dependent on supported languages being enabled.

This policy setting restricts the Windows UI language for specific users. This policy setting applies to computers with more than one UI language installed. If you enable this policy setting the UI language of Windows menus and dialogs for systems with more than one language is restricted to a specified language for the selected user. If the specified language is not installed on the target computer or you disable this policy setting the language selection defaults to the language selected by the user. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting there is no restriction on which language users should use. To enable this policy setting in Windows Server 2003 Windows XP or Windows 2000 to use the “Restrict selection of Windows menus and dialogs language” policy setting.