Windows 10: windows 10 forcing a restart and changing my privacy settings.

09/29/18 windows 10 If I leave my computer idle for more then 10 minutes it will freeze and become unresponsive,mouse,keyboard and buttons do nothing. I have to manually shut it down and restart. Upon restart my privacy and background app setting are changed and my system runs at 100% while my wifi runs at full up-speed as my data is collected and sent to MS. How do I stop this.

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Windows 10 Creators Update to Feature New Levels of Privacy Control

Just a tiny step closer before I'll upgrade to windows 10....

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Privacy tweaks...

• Turn Cortana Off. Bring up the Start menu and start typing. Click on the notebook icon in the left sidebar and choose Settings. From there, you can turn off Cortana.
• Search online and include web results. When you turn off Cortana, you’ll see this option appear. You can turn it off if you’d rather not get web search suggestions from the Start menu, which log your typing and send it back to Microsoft so you can get live-updating predictions, just like you do on Google.com or in Chrome and Firefox.
• Getting to Know You. In Settings > Privacy > Speech, Inking, & Typing, you’ll find a feature called “Getting to Know You”. This is probably the most sweeping privacy setting on the system, and even after turning off Cortana, you’ll have to disable this setting. Just click the “Stop Getting to Know Me” button to turn it off.
• Cloud Info. Turning off Getting to Know You removes info from your device, but you’ll have to remove it from the cloud separately. In that same window, click “Go to Bing and manage personal info for all your devices” to clear the Getting to Know You Data from your Microsoft account.

• If you head to Settings > Privacy > Feedback & Diagnostics, you’ll see two settings:

• Feedback frequency: Windows will occasionally ask you for feedback so you can send Microsoft your thoughts on Windows 10. If you’d rather it not bug you with such things, you can change it to Never.
• Diagnostic and usage data: This feature can send a lot of data back to Microsoft, including how often you use certain apps, which apps you use most often, and memory snapshots (which can inadvertently include parts of a document you’re working on if something crashes). You can change this to Full, Enhanced, or Basic. You can read more about what each of these to here.

Microsoft doesn’t let you turn off diagnostics completely, except on Enterprise versions of Windows. The Basic setting, they say, is data that is “vital to the operation of Windows”, including Windows Update and malicious software protection.


some may be duplicated. I found this info on Lifehacker, if anyone wants the full article.

 

Microsoft Hit by First Successful Windows 10 Forced Upgrade Lawsuit

"Umm, that was fixed when they pulled the November update" is what I would've suggested.

Except that when I bought a new laptop with Windows 10 just one month ago, and the November update later applied itself, many of the privacy settings I'd carefully gone through and changed when first setting it up were quietly changed back to the defaults. The Ars article I linked mentioned four; in my case it was closer to ten settings that got switched. It also reinstalled numerous apps I'd uninstalled.

Been using Windows since 3.1 and never felt this uneasy about the level of control Microsoft wields over my system; there's a real sense now they can change the deal at any time, and get away with it.