How to Turn On or Off Inking and Typing Personalization in Windows 10

When the Getting to know you privacy setting is turned on for inking & typing personalization in Windows 10, you can use your typing history and handwriting patterns to create a local user dictionary for you that is used to make better typing suggestions and improve handwriting recognition for each of the languages you use.

When Getting to know you is turned off, your personal typing and inking dictionary will be cleared. Typing suggestions and handwriting recognition using the system dictionary will continue to work.

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off Getting to know you for a inking & typing personalization for your account in Windows 10.

Contents

• Option One: Turn On or Off Inking & Typing Personalization in Settings
• Option Two: Turn On or Off Inking & Typing Personalization using a REG file

EXAMPLE: Local user dictionary created by "Inking & typing personalization"

OPTION ONE

Turn On or Off Inking & Typing Personalization in Settings

Starting with Windows 10 build 17704, Microsoft separated Settings > Privacy > Speech, Inking & typing into two settings: Settings > Privacy > Speech and Settings > Privacy > Inking & typing personalization.

1 Open Settings, and click/tap on the Privacy icon.

2 Click/tap on Inking & typing personalization on the left side, and turn on (default) or off Personal typing and inking dictionary for what you want on the right side. (see screenshot below)

3 You can now close Settings if you like.

OPTION TWO

Turn On or Off Inking & Typing Personalization using a REG file

The downloadable .reg files below will modify the DWORD values in the registry keys below.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\InputPersonalization

RestrictImplicitInkCollection DWORD
RestrictImplicitTextCollection DWORD

0 = On
1 = Off

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\InputPersonalization\TrainedDataStore

HarvestContacts DWORD

0 = Off
1 = On

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Personalization\Settings

AcceptedPrivacyPolicy DWORD

0 = Off
1 = On

1 Do step 2 (on) or step 3 (off) below for what you would like to do.

2 To Turn On Inking & Typing Personalization

This is the default setting.

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Turn_ON_Getting_to_know_you_for_inking_and_typing_personalization.reg

Download

3 To Turn Off Inking & Typing Personalization

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Turn_OFF_Getting_to_know_you_for_inking_and_typing_personalization.reg

Download

4 Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

6 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

7 You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.

That's it,
Shawn

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