Windows 11 Explorer Preview Pane Configuration

[firewarrior]

I created my gold Image of Windows 11 24H2 with Explorer's "Preview Pane" disabled. I'm trying to figure out how to re-enable it on machines that were imaged with that image. Is NTLite just disabling it via registry or something else?

 

[garlin]

Explorer's Preview Pane is disabled by a HKCU reg change.

To revert on a per-user basis:

reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced" /v NoReadingPane /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

To revert for all new users:

reg load HKU\TEMP C:\Users\Default\NTUSER.DAT
reg add "HKU\TEMP\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced" /v NoReadingPane /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f
reg unload HKU\TEMP

 

[firewarrior]

Thank you! I appreciate the fast response!