I have a bunch of WM 6.1 devices in which I need to disable the "Help Make Windows Better" message.  These are enterprise devices and I don't want each user see this message.  How can I disable this message?

Welcome to The Connection Bob.

Where and when are you seeing this message?

I would think it would be possible to distribute a CAB file that disables the message in the registry. 

This is a notification window that shows up at the bottom of the screen.  The user can respond to dismiss, but I don't want to train all my users 10K+ as to the nature of this message and how to respond.

Thanks

True.  What registry key controls this message?

This should remove the icon from your settings:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ControlPanel\Customer Feedback]
"Hide"=dword:00000001

Dave Parker MVP:

This should remove the icon from your settings:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ControlPanel\Customer Feedback]
"Hide"=dword:00000001

 

 This will hide the icon from the control panel. You could also set the "Group"  dword to "3" to hide it.  The source code for this in a cab would be:

<wap-provisioningdoc>
<characteristic type="Registry">
    <characteristic type="HKLM\ControlPanel\Customer Feedback">
        <parm name="Hide" value="1" datatype="integer" />
    </characteristic>
</characteristic>
</wap-provisioningdoc>

However,  this will hide the icon, so users can't interact with it. 

This will not stop the message from coming up. 

 The key that tells the system whether feedback is enabled or disabled is -

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\SQM

Enabled=1.

So you can disable the feedback this way.     Whether this will stop the message prompting or not, I am unsure. 

Thanks to all for the suggestions. Even though I know we're all professionals here, with a good deal of WM experience, I still need to inject our standard warning about registry editing for others who may come upon this thread:

 Thanks Bill, I forgot to mention that.

Also,   I've made a cab that disables the SQM, it looks like this - 

<wap-provisioningdoc>
<characteristic type="Registry">
    <characteristic type="HKLM\System\SQM">
        <parm name="Enabled" value="0" datatype="integer" />
    </characteristic>
</characteristic>
</wap-provisioningdoc>

I've compiled it and run it up on a diamond, so I will let you know how it goes, the error hasn't popped up yet.  

If all goes well I'll walk you through the process to do this. 

 In theory this could be set to 1 or 0,  enabled or disabled. and the prompt would go away because it has a setting in place.

 <wap-provisioningdoc>
<characteristic type="Registry">
    <characteristic type="HKLM\System\SQM">
        <parm name="Enable" value="0" datatype="integer" />
        <parm name="Enabled" value="0" datatype="integer" />
        <parm name="EnableUI" value="1" datatype="integer" />
    </characteristic>
</characteristic>
</wap-provisioningdoc>

That should make it so that the Customer Feedback control panel is visible to the user, but it's set to "Don't Send Feedback" and the prompt will not appear.

David's CAB creation tutorial can probably be used to make the CAB.

Then you should be able to use System Center Device Manager to distribute that (but I don't know how that works).

This seems to have done the trick.  Thanks!

Adam Z Lein:

Then you should be able to use System Center Device Manager to distribute that (but I don't know how that works).

The only real caveat to this is signing the cab file. which If you've gone through a System Center Device Management Server install you will know all about. 

Edit: And thanks for finishing that code off for me Adam, I got distracted from my testing!