I just coded for Windows Firewall. DNS Whitelist or not, I can ban Windows Update itself with the built-in firewall. My understanding is that whitelist helps more against hackers redirecting vs blocking, but someone's going to have to monitor their network and catch them in the act of bypassing.
I would like to ask a question. Firstly, I want to use Win 10 but very unsure with all this spying talk going on and all these anti spying threads. It just confuses me and I don't know which direction to go in to make it all safe. I keep doing test installs on my old machine. I like the look of the .bat script and just ran it on a fresh install. It seems to have worked, the HOSTS file as all those entries in. My question is, running the .bat file. Is that all I need to do ? Once it's run is all this spying stuff disabled or is there more to do ? I have read a lot on this matter but being a simple lad it just makes my head hurt.
Once you've run the bat file that's it All the telemetry is disabled... If you feel like you're not satisfied with the program, there's instructions on page 11 to remove the telemetry but you should be all good
Cheers for that. Out of the antispy things I have looked at and tried my best to understand I find the .bat file the one for me and now I know that's all I need to do I feel I can move forward with Win 10. Thanks very much..
You should upload your script to some other place, we can't download from Dropbox unless we have an account there
You can There should be an option to skip and continue to download. But either way I'll make a mirror in a little while
Nice, thanks. I think these schedule tasks could be safely added to your list: Code: schtasks /Change /TN "Microsoft\Windows\AppID\SmartScreenSpecific" /Disable schtasks /Change /TN "Microsoft\Windows\Application Experience\Microsoft Compatibility Appraiser" /Disable schtasks /Change /TN "Microsoft\Windows\DiskDiagnostic\Microsoft-Windows-DiskDiagnosticDataCollector" /Disable schtasks /Change /TN "Microsoft\Windows\NetTrace\GatherNetworkInfo" /Disable although i'm not sure about these that i saw from other sources: Code: schtasks /Change /TN "Microsoft\Windows\PI\Sqm-Tasks" /Disable schtasks /Change /TN "Microsoft\Windows\FileHistory\File History (maintenance mode)" /Disable schtasks /Change /TN "Microsoft\Windows\DiskFootprint\Diagnostics" /Disable schtasks /Change /TN "Microsoft\Windows\CloudExperienceHost\CreateObjectTask" /Disable
@s1ave77 With that method, lets say that i add those hosts that you posted and later i found some more. Do i need to erase the text file to include only the new ones or i can just add them at the end of those you posted and it'll automatically detect the previously added and skip them? Also, not sure about this task: Code: schtasks /Change /TN "Microsoft\Windows\SettingSync\BackgroundUploadTask" /Disable i think it cannot be disabled, access denied
BTW: actually a good idea to check the hosts file for containing entries and match them against the list to only append the missing ones. Since i already have the code to do this in WU TOOL i will assemble an example script and add it to the WU En/Disable script in post#2 of the REPO. Together with all other Tweaks, with option what to install and to revert.
Kindly share latest script after all domains and IPs addded in the hosts and all the required services till now disabled. Thanks.