How can I disable the Timeline in Windows 10 April 2018 Update?

Question

The Windows 10 April 2018 Update includes a new feature called Timeline which tacks the activities and allows you to see what you have done earlier, sends it to Microsoft servers, so that you can resume work on a 2nd device, which is connected to the same Microsoft account when you press the Tasks View button in the taskbar:

How can I disable the Timeline because I don't want that my activity gets tracked?

Answer 1

You can disable this via GUI

• Open Settings app

• Navigate to System > Multitasking.

• Look for Timeline, and toggle off show suggestions occasionally in Timeline.

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• navigate to Privacy > Activity History
• disable the 2 checkboxes and set the toggle entry to off

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or registry.

• run regedit.exe go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System
• create a new DWORD (32Bit) with the name EnableActivityFeed and set it to 0.
• create a new DWORD (32Bit) with the name PublishUserActivities and set it to 0.
• create a new DWORD (32Bit) with the name UploadUserActivities and set it to 0.

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Now you have the old Taskview back.