Microsoft Rewards Icon and Counter in search box

When the Windows region is set outside Europe I can see the Microsoft Rewards Icon and counter in the serch box.



When the region is set inside Europe the counter is gone.



I don't really need this function but I am curious if there is any way (vivetool, registry, etc) to get the Rewards icon and counter when the region is set in EEA?

Microsoft Rewards availability varies depending on your location, so even within Europe, some countries might not have access to the feature.

Microsoft Rewards is available in many European Regions, apparently. You’d have to be unlucky if you weren’t in one of the following:


As for fooling the system into showing the rewards icon, I don’t know of one. If rewards aren’t available in your specific region, then what would there be to show?

I would guess, try setting your specific location to one that is listed in the “Europe” drop down in the link above?
But you may be right, someone might know of a ViveTool advantage.

It's probably buried under one of the regional policies in "C:\Windows\System32\IntegratedServicesRegionPolicySet.json".
Only a few policies are fairly obvious to what they do, but the rest are....

You can edit the file, switch the "defaultstate" value and log out before seeing if anything changed for you.

garlin said:

It's probably buried under one of the regional policies in "C:\Windows\System32\IntegratedServicesRegionPolicySet.json".
Only a few policies are fairly obvious to what they do, but the rest are....

You can edit the file, switch the "defaultstate" value and log out before seeing if anything changed for you.

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I don't think this has to do with "C:\Windows\System32\IntegratedServicesRegionPolicySet.json". I've changed the region in "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Control Panel\DeviceRegion\DeviceRegion" which enforces the policies in that particular json with no change.

stzan said:

I don't think this has to do with "C:\Windows\System32\IntegratedServicesRegionPolicySet.json". I've changed the region in "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Control Panel\DeviceRegion\DeviceRegion" which enforces the policies in that particular json with no change.

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Values here: (must be REG_DWORD)

OAT said:

Values here: (must be REG_DWORD)

Table of Geographical Locations - Win32 apps

This topic lists the available geographical locations with identifiers (data type GEOID).

learn.microsoft.com

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Altering DeviceRegion doesn't bring back the Rewards Icon and Counter but can enforce policies that are in IntegratedServicesRegionPolicySet.json
To get the Rewards Icon and Counter in search box and settings you just have to change the User Region ID to a country outside EEA, but that's like changing the country in settings and causes other problems.
I was wondering if there was a registry key to enable the Rewards Icon and Counter without messing with the region settings at all.

When set to EEA, can you not go to

Settings > Privacy & Security > Search Permissions > Turn off the Microsoft Account toggle under the Cloud Content Search

?

dacrone said:

When set to EEA, can you not go to

Settings > Privacy & Security > Search Permissions > Turn off the Microsoft Account toggle under the Cloud Content Search

?

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I can but that doesn't bring back the Rewards icon and counter.