do you really think that disabing the telemetry will prevent Microsoft to trace you in the future ? whatever you do , you will always be traced by Microsoft.
the ms telemetry, spying activities, user experience, cortana, apps, msrootkits, hooks in the shell And the new store interface slow down boot performance and general usage of the system. I give my vote in favor so that this wonderful people in here keep blocking all this Headaches. Thanks for the all scripts.
@abbodi1406: A better response would have been "This is not a Tom Clancy novel". All kidding aside. I've seen a lot of people come here, asking the same questions. Many of them were scared, and rightfully so. But since the folks at MDL got their meat hooks into Windows 10, most of the unwanted garbage has been removed. Just follow their lead...You'll be fine.
The thread subject is specific for telemetry components delivered with Windows 7/8.1 updates go protest against MSFT somewhere else
Firstly thanks so so much for your time and for sharing these life saving solutions! I do often install Windows 7 on new computers and on VMware and I always struggle with these stubborn and invasive telemetry & Co.. By blocking them manually there is too much work to do by looking in Services, Task Scheduler and Windows update, then you update Security Essential and Windows Update restarts by "downloading" and installing stuff you don't want! 1) What happens when I want to update Microsoft Security Essential, will it update (virus definitions)? 2) The alternative to schedule task link from your instruction is not working. PS: When I run the W10-Block, the command prompt window appeared for less than a second then it disappeared and nothing else happened.
From the downloaded file the string "TIMEOUT /T 5" was missing so I copied the script from your instruction. A command prompt window opened displaying a timeout then it closed, does that mean the scripts was executed?
Had to reinstall Windows 8.1 and tried the scripts today. The W10-Hide.cmd is unfortunately unable to hide KB3068708 And maybe others(?) because I have not checked all over 100 Updates manually, just seen 3068708 because it appeared later at the available Updates list, run W10-Hide.cmd again and it did not find or hide it. Code: Checking for updates... Already hidden: Update für Windows 8.1 für x64-Systeme (KB3044374) Already hidden: Update für Windows 8.1 für x64-Systeme (KB3080149) Already hidden: Update für Windows 8.1 für x64-Systeme (KB2976978) Press any key to Exit
There are a few more lines in the script downloaded from the link in the OP. Do they make any difference? Code: reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SQMClient\IE /v CEIPEnable /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f >nul 2>&1 reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SQMClient\IE /v SqmLoggerRunning /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f >nul 2>&1 reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SQMClient\Reliability /v CEIPEnable /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f >nul 2>&1 reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SQMClient\Reliability /v SqmLoggerRunning /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f >nul 2>&1 reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SQMClient\Windows /v DisableOptinExperience /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f >nul 2>&1 reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SQMClient\Windows /v CEIPEnable /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f >nul 2>&1 reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SQMClient\Windows /v SqmLoggerRunning /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f >nul 2>&1 reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Diagnostics\DiagTrack /v DiagTrackAuthorization /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f >nul 2>&1 schtasks /Change /TN "\Microsoft\Windows\PerfTrack\BackgroundConfigSurveyor" /DISABLE >nul 2>&1 schtasks /Delete /F /TN "\Microsoft\Windows\PerfTrack\BackgroundConfigSurveyor" >nul 2>&1
Trying to figure out why my windows store isn't working (clicking on item doesnt do a thing). does anyone know if method1 breaks windows store?
In comparison to the downloaded W10-Block.cmd, the W10-Block.cmd from the instructions has a duplicate line: Code: reg delete HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\WMI\AutoLogger\SQMLogger /f >nul 2>&1 reg delete HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Diagnostics\DiagTrack /f >nul 2>&1 reg delete HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\DataCollection /f >nul 2>&1 reg delete HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Diagnostics\DiagTrack /f >nul 2>&1 from the downloaded W10-Block.cmd: Code: reg delete HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\WMI\AutoLogger\SQMLogger /f >nul 2>&1 reg delete HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\DataCollection /f >nul 2>&1 reg delete HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Diagnostics\DiagTrack /f >nul 2>&1 and from the instructions, the last schtasks command is missing an "s", instead of "chtasks" change it to "schtasks".