Hide the Device Performance and Health Area in Windows 10?
Windows 10 includes a feature called Windows Device Performance & Health. This feature provides information about device performance and helps you troubleshoot issues. You can choose whether to show this section or not. Choose one of those options.
If you decide to disable this section, you won’t be able to view the following things:
* Device health status
* Battery level
* Network connectivity
* Wi-Fi signal strength
Windows 11/10 Device Performance and Health
Windows 10 introduced Device Health, a feature designed to help IT administrators monitor device performance and health across devices within their organization. This article explains how to use Device Health in Windows 10.
Show or Hide Device Performance & Health in Windows Security via GPEDIT
Hide the device performance and health area in Windows 10.
RungPedito open the Group Policy editor.
Open the Hide the Device performance & health area section.
The settings are as follows:
Disabled: The Hide the Device performance and health area will be displayed.
Not configured: The Hide the Device performace and health area will not be displayed.
Hide Device Performance and Health in Windows Security Using the Registry
Double-click Hide the device performance and health area.
This tweak is included as a part of MajorGeeks Registry Tweaks
Hide Device Performance & Health From Windows Security With Regedit.
Display Device Performance and Health in Windows Security Using the Registry
Double-clicking the Show-Device-performance-and-health.reg file will merge the contents into the registry. You can view the device performance and health data in Windows Security.
To do this, open Windows Security by typing “secpol.msc” in the Start menu Search box. Select Allow the following items to be controlled by Group Policy. Then select Allow the following items to control local policy settings. Finally, select Allow the following items.
Click OK twice to close both windows.
Now you can double click the Show-Device-performance-and-health.exe file to view the device performance and health information.
Tim Wiley was a tech writer for seven years at Recode. In that time, he covered everything from basic browser.js and URL parameters to XHRs, performance, malware, security, enterprise apps, social media, and Windows secrets. He also written about how to hack Signal in 2016 and how to resist, or possibly even conquer, the zero-day threat.