Apps Enable or Disable Video Autoplay in Microsoft Store app in Windows 11


Microsoft_Store_banner.png

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off video autoplay in the Microsoft Store app for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11.

Some apps, games, and movies have a video (ex: trailer) available that will automatically play by default when you hover on its tile or open its page in the Microsoft Store app.

You can turn off video autoplay if you do not want these videos to automatically play anymore.


EXAMPLE: Video autoplay turned off in Microsoft Store app

Video_autoplay_off.jpg



Here's How:

1 Open the Microsoft Store app.

2 Click/tap on the user Profile button, and click/tap on Settings. (see screenshot below)

Microsoft_Store_video_autoplay-1.jpg

3 Turn On (default) or Off Video autoplay for what you want. (see screenshot below)

Microsoft_Store_video_autoplay-2.png

4 You can now close the Microsoft Store app if you like.


That's it,
Shawn Brink


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Run this batch script with Admin rights:
Code: 
@echo off
taskkill /f /im WinStore.App.exe > NUL 2>&1
timeout /t 2 > NUL

REM "00,bb,06,e7,a0,74,f5,da" is the logged UTC filesystem time, the actual value is irrelevant to the App
REM Last hex value is 0 (on) or 1 (off)

(echo Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 & echo. & echo [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\TEMP\LocalState] & echo ^"VideoAutoplay^"=hex^(5f5e10b^):00,bb,06,e7,a0,74,f5,da,01) > temp.reg

reg load HKLM\TEMP "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsStore_8wekyb3d8bbwe\Settings\settings.dat" > NUL
reg import temp.reg > NUL 2>&1
reg unload HKLM\TEMP > NUL

del /f temp.reg > NUL

UWP apps have their own offline registry hives, with undocumented key types. Honestly, I don't think this is any faster or more convenient then clicking the Store App UI.
 
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garlin said:
Run this batch script with Admin rights:
Code: 
@echo off
taskkill /f /im WinStore.App.exe > NUL 2>&1
timeout /t 2 > NUL

REM "00,bb,06,e7,a0,74,f5,da" is the logged UTC filesystem time, the actual value is irrelevant to the App
REM Last hex value is 0 (on) or 1 (off)

(echo Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 & echo. & echo [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\TEMP\LocalState] & echo ^"VideoAutoplay^"=hex^(5f5e10b^):00,bb,06,e7,a0,74,f5,da,01) > temp.reg

reg load HKLM\TEMP "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsStore_8wekyb3d8bbwe\Settings\settings.dat" > NUL
reg import temp.reg > NUL 2>&1
reg unload HKLM\TEMP > NUL

del /f temp.reg > NUL

UWP apps have their own offline registry hives, with undocumented key types. Honestly, I don't think this is any faster or more convenient then clicking the Store App UI.
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Just so I won't get confused, does this script turn on autoplay? Or turn it off?
 

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This script turns off AutoPlay, which is enabled by default. Don't ask me why the reg value is backwards.
 

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garlin said:
Run this batch script with Admin rights:
Code: 
@echo off
taskkill /f /im WinStore.App.exe > NUL 2>&1
timeout /t 2 > NUL

REM "00,bb,06,e7,a0,74,f5,da" is the logged UTC filesystem time, the actual value is irrelevant to the App
REM Last hex value is 0 (on) or 1 (off)

(echo Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 & echo. & echo [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\TEMP\LocalState] & echo ^"VideoAutoplay^"=hex^(5f5e10b^):00,bb,06,e7,a0,74,f5,da,01) > temp.reg

reg load HKLM\TEMP "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsStore_8wekyb3d8bbwe\Settings\settings.dat" > NUL
reg import temp.reg > NUL 2>&1
reg unload HKLM\TEMP > NUL

del /f temp.reg > NUL

UWP apps have their own offline registry hives, with undocumented key types. Honestly, I don't think this is any faster or more convenient then clicking the Store App UI.
Click to expand...
@garlin
I tried this (.BAT file) with NTLite post setup, before (machine) & after (user) logon, none worked

Does this also need any kind of VBS/PS wrapper?
 

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Like everything, this is a timing-related problem. You can't edit Settings.dat until your user account has been provisioning for UWP apps.

That can't happen during SetupComplete.cmd, and RunOnce tasks may trigger too early, before provisioning is complete. Stick another "timeout /t" in the script's beginning to slow roll the start time.
 

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