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WindowOcclusionEnabled

Enable Window Occlusion

Supported versions

  • On Windows since 89 or later

Description

Enables window occlusion in Microsoft Edge.

If you enable this setting, to reduce CPU and power consumption Microsoft Edge will detect when a window is covered by other windows, and will suspend work painting pixels.

If you disable this setting Microsoft Edge will not detect when a window is covered by other windows.

If this policy is left not set, window hiding detection will be enabled.

Supported features

  • Can be mandatory: Yes
  • Can be recommended: No
  • Dynamic Policy Refresh: Yes
  • Per Profile: No
  • Applies to a profile that is signed in with a Microsoft account: Yes

Data type

  • Boolean

Windows information and settings

Group Policy (ADMX) info

  • GP unique name: WindowOcclusionEnabled
  • GP name: Enable Window Occlusion
  • GP path (Mandatory): Administrative Templates/Microsoft Edge
  • GP path (Recommended): N/A
  • GP ADMX file name: MSEdge.admx

Example value

Enabled

Registry settings

  • Path (Mandatory): SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge
  • Path (Recommended): N/A
  • Value name: WindowOcclusionEnabled
  • Value type: REG_DWORD

Example registry value

0x00000001

See also