Are you going to encourage the collection of personal information about yourself and other computer users on the updated system from Microsoft? Then you should learn how to disable tracking in Windows 10 and maintain your privacy.
Microsoft motivates the collection of personal data about its users by offering relevant contextual advertising and timely system improvements. However, some clauses in the license agreement may be considered a violation of customer privacy. That is why the request for how to disable tracking in Windows 10 is increasingly common among the owners of the latest version of the OS.
In addition to contact information, the system will collect passwords, hobbies and preferences of the user on the network, including online purchases, downloadable and transferred content, information of bank cards and payment systems, as well as data on the location of the device and much more. By agreement, there is no retention period for all information and materials received by Microsoft, which means that the company can dispose of them any amount of time.
You can turn off tracking in Windows 10 at the time of system installation, abandoning the standard settings. At this stage, you need to go to the item "Setting options" in the lower left corner and drag the slider to "Disabled". At the stage of entering the account, select "Skip this step" to log in with a local account.
After installing the system, go to the "Options" menu, then "Privacy" and disable unnecessary in your opinion options in all sections, ranging from general and ending with background applications. In the same "Options" menu, go to the heading "Update and Security" and then, in Windows Defender, we refuse the activated options.
We go to the taskbar, the "Settings" menu, in the tab with the gear icon, turn off Cortana. To disable telemetry collection in Windows 10, open the command line as an administrator and type in:
- sc delete DiagTrack
- sc delete dmwappushservice
- echo "> C: / ProgramData / Microsoft / Diagnosis / ETLLogs / AutoLogger / AutoLogger-Diagtrack-Listener.etl
- reg add "HKLM / SOFTWARE / Policies / Microsoft / Windows / DataCollection" / v AllowTelemetry / t REG_DWORD / d 0 / f
We confirm each command with the Enter key.
In the settings of the built-in browser Edge, we find the item "View advanced options". Disable all unnecessary options, leaving only the "Send Do Not Track requests" action active. If you have already activated Windows 10 under your account, then you can go to local mode in the "Settings" - "Your account" menu.
With the help of these recommendations, it will not be possible to completely disable tracking in Windows 10. Here are the most accessible methods that reduce system control and prohibit the collection of user personal data.
