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Mine were taken by me using the Feedback app, they're meant to be there.
Yes, that's probably from the feedback app or possibly a program on your computer. Having a visible folder would be a dumb thing to do if you were trying to stealthily spy on someone by taking screenshots, and so would taking them at seemingly random times which will most likely be the victim arranging files or something like that, leaving it on the hard drive after taking it and uploading it,or even having the folder in the actual Pictures folder. Some programs have crash reporters that will take a screenshot if you allow them to. Maybe a program crashed and you dismissed the crash message without unchecking a box or something. It would be way to hard to accidentally leave feedback w/out a Microsoft acct, that's for sure. Are you sure that the screenshot was of you doing stuff? Perhaps someone else on your computer has a Microsoft account and they took a screenshot using the feedback app.
I have given feedback with screenshots and fault re-creation several times, but don't have/can't see the folder with or without hidden files turned on.
I have looked in user folder and my libraries(on a separate drive)
Last edited by Cliff S; 30 Aug 2015 at 01:16.
That's interesting, so we can strongly assume that these screenshots are part of the feedback system.
As I already stated: I have never run the feedback app on the machine in question and have only used a local account -- the feedback app requires an MS account to start. So, the mechanism for taking the screenshot must exist outside of the feedback app and was initiated, without consent, by another process.
I'm sure I have logged in to the feedback app with a Microsoft Account, even though I was logged into the machine itself with a local account, which I do most of the time.
That is, you (or anyone else who may have logged in) can login to the feedback app separately from the method you use to login to the machine, using any email address that is setup as an Insider account. You don't need to have a MS Account setup on the machine itself.
How is this unhelpful and generic? I'm trying to wipe the idea of Windows having built-in spyware. That's also a really ironic comment, and so is this. If it is irrelevant why add more irrelevant posts pointing out that it is irrelevant, which will instigate even more irrelevant posts? Someone else having a Microsoft account and leaving feedback certainly is relevant. Maybe that's what happened and if you had the privilege to decide whether comments should be relevant or not before they're posted and to delete them if they aren't, this conversation would drag on for weeks.
You don't even need to have a Microsoft account associated with your user. You can sign into the Feedback app separately without affecting your user account.