"Some of these settings are managed by your organization" Why is this showing up ?

[csumitwr]

I recently used this script twice to clean and disable bloatware from my Windows 11 laptop. It did remove and disable a lot of stuff. But in Privacy & Security under Activity History it shows "Some of these settings are managed by your organization" this message. It's my personal laptop and this wasn't there before.

I just want to know why is it showing up now ? Is this a security risk and Can I change this setting somehow ? Thankyou!

[Raphire]

Heya,

This is showing up because of how Win11Debloat disables the activity history setting using a local machine policy.

Policies are normally used by organisations to lock certain settings and/or to prevent their users from changing it. I try to avoid using policies, but in this case it's (as far as I know) the only way for the script to do it.

If you don't want this setting to be locked you can revert this specific policy. The script provides registry files to revert changes, although I have noticed there's not one to specifically revert this one. I'll add this tonight and I'll update the post so you can use it to unlock this setting and remove the message :)

[csumitwr]

Thank you for the clarification. I'm not tech savvy so I thought this was some kind of security risk.

[Raphire]

You're welcome! If you wish to unlock the setting you can now use this registry file. It can be downloaded seperately through the link, look for a small download button.