

This setting has been deprecated in Windows 8 and needs to hit the landfill. To wrap this up, I noticed, that there is still a rumor floating around that you can use SkipMachineOOBE to bypass Windows Welcome. Something along these lines should do the trick: Remove-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE" -Name "DisableVoice" -Force However, should you wish to restore the default behavior, add a PowerShell script towards the end of your task sequence. From my point of view, this bit applies only to OEMs. Grab his script from GitHub and add it to your Post-Install phase:īe aware that according to Microsoft documentation shipping a device with Cortana voice support disabled is an unsupported configuration. Personally, I like his approach better because - at least when applied to Microsoft Deployment Toolkit - it saves me the necessity to apply changes to each unattend.xml in my deployment shares. However, Johan Arwidmark mentioned on Twitter a cooler way of setting the registry value. Note: You may need to adjust 5 value to match your unattend.xml Reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE /v DisableVoice /d 1 /t REG_DWORD /f Simply add following registry tweak to Unattend.xml right before the tag : Unattended installations make it easy to keep Cortana quiet.
