The app called: Winaero Tweaker
allows you to disable Telemetry.
In the app, search for: Disable Telemetry
What benefit do you hope to gain by doing so?
What are you afraid of?
How do you think MS gets data on patterns of failure to upgrade so it can set up Safeguard holds to protect customers, for example? Or data on usage so it knows how to shape the product to meet market requirements?
Yea, I've noticed that option re-enables itself all the time. Honestly, I don't care about disabling Telemetry anymore. I used to be strict about the idea of businesses/services to "spam" me with things that I may have interest for. This option would slightly fall into that category, in my opinion. But as of today, my name and email address is everywhere to where I get so much spam about things that it doesn't even matter anymore. Give yourself a break and don't stress about this idea of privacy anymore.
The "Enable" in Group Policy Editor enables the use of the setting. "Enable" allows Windows 10 to use the "Allow Telemetry" Group Policy setting. Enable has nothing to do with the actual level you set. Be aware, Microsoft probably disabled this Group Policy feature. I read on another site, I can't remember exactly where, Windows 10 began ignoring the '0' "Allow Telemetry" Group Policy setting sometime last year.
On the same page you mentioned, below the Group Policy setting, there is the Registry setting: "How To Complete Disable Telemetry In Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise and Education Editions Using Registry Editor". Use this instead. There are also other Telemetry settings to disable in the Registry.
There is a script mentioned in a YouTube video which covers them. Do not blindly run the script because it makes many other changes. Here is the video: THIS is what Windows 10 should look like! - Custom Windows Image Tutorial. See the video first. All of the steps outlined in the video are rather long and you probably don't want to do a fresh install anyway. What I recommend you do is read the script and manually make any changes you require to disable any Telemetry settings in the Registry Editor. After you are finished, you may want to create a Registry file, NAME.REG, to keep all the settings you created. This way, if Windows 10 re-enables Telemetry after any update, you can re-disable them with your NAME.REG file.
If you want to stop Windows 10 from automatically updating in front of you or even completely stop all Windows 10 updates permanently, you can try StopUpdates10.
If you want to monitor what connections Windows makes over the Internet, you can use free Microsoft's TCPView. There is also free NirSoft's CurrPorts which can work together with their optional free NirSoft's IPNetInfo. I have used many of their free utilities from both companies for years.
I read somewhere if the Microsoft Telemetry Internet addresses are blocked, such as with a hardware router, Windows 10 will produce an error message. Is this true? Has anyone ever blocked the Microsoft Telemetry Internet addresses using a hardware router? If so, have you ever gotten any error messages? Thanks in advance.
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