Windows 10: Disabling Telemetry

I purchased a Windows 10 Pro license and feel strongly that as a paying customer rather than someone that was "gifted" a copy of the Home edition when I bought my laptop, I should have a degree of control over the operating system. I've disabled telemetry every time W10 is installed, and every time an update comes down, it gets turned back on with no notification that this change has been made.


So, a couple of questions for the team at Microsoft.

1. If I've opted out of providing telemetry when the OS was installed, what part of the EULA gives MS the right to turn it back on?
2. If there is a part of the EULA that does give MS the right to turn it back on even though I explicitly opted out when the OS was installed, where in the EULA does it say that it can do so without telling me there's been a change?

This is not cool. I purchased an upgrade, rather than simply installing Linux and being done with Windows altogether, because I believed that by doing so I would have a greater degree of control over what data is shared with Microsoft. To be explicitly clear, I don't enjoy being anyone's product. That's the whole point of mass data collection, and I get it, this is the business model most massive tech companies have adopted. However, I bought my OS from you and while the proprietary nature of the OS itself is yours, it's installed on my laptop. I own that hardware. The line dividing what is yours and mine is at the threshold of my hardware. When you ask if I want to share my data, and the answer is no, why is that response not honored?


Lastly, what registry setting, config file, system setting do I need to tinker with to permanently turn off telemetry? To be fair, if MS returned to actually testing its software prior to release rather than depending on production environments to find defects, and had an explicit telemetry setting for collecting crash/error logs, then I would reconsider sharing.

:)

 

Disabling Windows Compatibility Telemetry - Windows 10

Hello,

Windows telemetry inform our decisions and focus our efforts in providing the most robust, most valuable platform for your business and the people who count on Windows to enable them to be as productive as possible. Telemetry gives users a voice in
the operating system’s development. For more information regarding Windows telemetry, you may check this
article.

If you don't want to participate in providing automatic feedback to improve the operating system, we can disable Windows Telemetry by following these steps:

• Run the Services desktop application.
• Locate Diagnostics Tracking Service in the services list, and open its
  Property Sheet.
• Stop the Diagnostics Tracking Service, and then change the Startup Type to
  Disabled.
• Click OK.

We'll keep an eye out for your response.

 

Win10 Telemetry


Good article from ZDNet.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microso...on-off-switch/

 

Disabling Windows Compatibility Telemetry - Windows 10

All your reply does, is show Microsoft's disconnect from reality. For one, there's no longer a Diagnostics Tracking Service. That's no coincidence, btw, as MS purposely keeps changing the compat telemetry stuff around (so people have a harder
time disabling it). And/or keep re-enabling the compat telemetry in nearly every update. Read the thread. So, processblocker is the ONLY thing, so far, that truly, and persistently, blocks your compat telemetry now.

'Telemetry gives users a voice in the operating system’s development.' And, pray-tell, what is this?! Am I supposed to feel empowered now?! If you guys would REALLY listen to us, you wouldn't be constantly going out of your way to shove the compat telemetry
in our faces to begin with.

But since this is the probably the closest we get to having your ear, please hear this: compatTelRunner is an incredibly invasive piece of software, which constantly keeps your disk(s) bogged down. For instance, I have some junctions on my SSD to my game
disk. And no, I really don't want the combat telemetry malware to scan my entire game disk at every change made to my install. I really don't. And I really don't get why you people don't get that.

If you really want us to 'be as productive as possible', then stop trashing our hard disks!