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Group policy option to disable "Whats new" popup #27413

Closed hellbringer closed 7 months ago

hellbringer commented 1 year ago

Description of the new feature / enhancement

Disable the "Whats new" popup for any user that logs in to the same computer. Both a settings menu option and a group policy option to disable any popus or messages about "whats new"

Scenario when this would be used?

Multi-user systems or systems with roaming profiles

Supporting information

No response

htcfreek commented 1 year ago

@hellbringer Disabling completely or only when the same user logs in again?

What exactly is your problem that this GPO should fix? Can you please describe it a bit more detailed.

/needinfo

hellbringer commented 1 year ago

Option to disable the popup completely for any user that logs on to a system (computer group policy) Option to toggle in the settings "Don't show new features popup after updates" per user preference.

Why: Every time the PowerToys app gets updated it popups a message with a lot of text with all the new features, nobody reads those and just clicks away the popup without reading. Most users find these popups annoying. To prevent annoying users with information they don't read, disable the popup.

htcfreek commented 10 months ago

https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/src/runner/main.cpp#L207-L210

https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/src/runner/main.cpp#L392

(https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/src/runner/main.cpp#L421)

htcfreek commented 7 months ago

This is included in the v0.78.0 release.