How to disable all Windows 10 spying features?

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Lately, there have been a lot of reports on how Windows 10 spies on you. It seems that Windows 10 automatically collects a lot of information in the background and sends them to Microsoft, those information even include your keyboard typing data, your microphone data, your webcam data, etc.

This is a privacy nightmare. What are the steps that I can take to completely or mostly disable all of these information gathering features of Windows 10? What programs do I have to use, registry keys I have to modify, group policies I have to change, etc.?

Chin

Posted 2015-08-24T15:11:29.330

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2There are numerous programs that will disable the Windows 10 "spying" features. Which programs have you tried but ruled out? This cannot be done without a third-party tool, outside of the controls provides to disable those features of course, which I assume based on the way this question is being ask isn't enough or isn't considered to actually disable these features fully ( even though that is exactly what happens ). The privacy issues are being over reported and fear mongering is happening by the uninformed. – Ramhound – 2015-08-24T15:12:32.333

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That question doesn't have an answer yet but here is the useful link from @DavidPostill: Everything You Need to Disable in Windows 10

– MC10 – 2015-08-24T15:24:27.837

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Registry settings for all 'public' privacy settings can be found in my PowerShell script: Set-Privacy.ps1

– Peter Hahndorf – 2015-08-24T16:08:14.097

1Software solution here – Moab – 2015-08-24T16:14:30.900

The only ways to know for sure that you have stopped the spying are: keep permanently disconnected from network, replace operating system with a more trusted operating system. – ctrl-alt-delor – 2015-08-27T23:28:57.613

Hi Chin,

Since I started to use Windows 10 in the network I am member in all have discussed and prefered this tool https://github.com/Nummer/Destroy-Windows-10-Spying/releases

(The program put lots of different IP:adresses in example: C:\windows\system32\etc\hosts You can also read more in the github in description of the tool Cheers Cheers // Daniel

– XsiSec – 2016-09-16T14:02:30.520

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Ultimate Windows Tweaker has made a program to do this since Windows Vista: http://www.thewindowsclub.com/ultimate-windows-tweaker-4-windows-10

Go to UWT's privacy section, and it can automate all commonly known lock-downs. Note, there are a few things it still wont lock out 100%, such as blocking access to ports on your computer, or shutting down core networking services... but it will get you to a stage that would be temporarily more-secure than probably most of your other technology devices are.

Hicsy

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Simply do not use you Microsoft ID in your Windows, rather use an Offline account so that your information is not sent to the Microsoft server. You can also turn off the Privacy> Activity History Send my activity history to Microsoft for more assurance.

alanrogger007

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