Windows 10 Consumer Experience adds tiles to the Start Menu for things like Candy Crush, Solitaire, and other non-business applications. There’s a simple way to disable this. Note that this does not remove any of the built-in apps like Calendar, Mail, or even Xbox.
Here’s the difference with Consumer Experience enabled:
And disabled:
Group Policy
The best and most practical way to disable this would be Group Policy. There’s a setting called “Turn off Microsoft consumer experiences” located at Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Cloud Content”. If you enable this policy, the extra stuff will go away.
Registry
The GP setting above sets a registry key on the device. You can configure this registry key for the same result.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\CloudContent]
DisableWindowsConsumerFeatures=dword:00000001
MDM
Finally, this can configured with MDM. Managing policies across Group Policy, registry, and MDM simultaneously can quickly become fragmented, which is why many organizations choose to modernize to Microsoft 365, where device policies are centralized and consistently enforced through Intune.The OMA setting you want is Experience/AllowWindowsConsumerFeatures, and you want it set to 1.
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