How Do I Completely Disable Windows 10 Telemetry?

Callender said:

Well it does launch your default browser but you can close the browser and use another one. It will still use TOR network. I only use it for region locked stuff.

It's just your sig and ava make me think of the expression: Panda Power.

Cypherdude said:

Hello, I am unwilling to use Windows 10 because of the Telemetry issue. I have researched Telemetry and my understanding is you cannot completely turn off Telemetry, only set it on Basic. Has anyone ever been able to completely shut off Telemetry and verify this with utilities such as WireShark, Sysinternals TCPView, Nirsoft LiveTcpUdpWatch or Nirsoft CurrPorts? I know there are various tricks to try to shut off Telemetry such as using the Registry, Group Policy Editor, Task Scheduler to disable the "Customer Experience Improvement Program" (CEIP) and to remove the execute setting for file CompatTelrunner.exe. Are there any other Telemetry EXE files where I can disable the execute setting? There are experienced users who report even Windows 10 Enterprise returns data to Microsoft.

Mozilla Firefox still supports Windows 7. However, Guitar Pro 8 and other guitar programs do not. Also, Anaconda Python stopped supporting Windows 7 almost immediately in Jan 2020 which is sad. Mathematica 13 stopped supporting Windows 7 although Wolfram has priced themselves out of the market and this is not as needed as Python.

If anyone is able to make Windows 10 completely disable Telemetry and verify this with one of the above four utilities please LMK how to do it. Do the above Sysinternals and Nirsoft utilities catch ALL connections Windows makes? I am not willing to download an ISO from a third party source because they are insecure.

Even Windows 10 is getting old and will only be supported for 2 more years unless Microsoft changes this. I will not be using Windows 11 because their TPM 2.0 disables anonymity and allows other software to identify you using the onboard motherboard key. For this reason I will be using Linux in the future. It's just a matter of when, not if. I am hoping I can run any required Windows software I need using Wine.

What telemetry issue. The ONLY difference between Windows 10 and earlier versions is MS is more honest about telemetry LOL.

Well look. Don't run this unless you want problems. Or without a backup. But it does remap routing table. Hosts and Firewall blocking are no good.

Documentation - Get Blackbird

Blackbird does not edit the HOSTS file in any way, nor does it mess with your firewall settings.
It does not run in the background, instead relying on persistent routes and resolving hostnames to IP addresses each time Blackbird is applied by the user.

Some telemetry is hard coded into windows so the only sure way to block is via routing table. That Blackbird program is hard to use and can break things and changes can be hard to undo.

Remap routing table via Powershell.

Don't delete services. Just disable.

If you can identify telemetry ip addresses (or any other that you want to block) just add.

@Cypherdude


Keep in mind that using Microsoft's firewall to block Microsoft's telemetry, is kind of silly.

Any competent intelligence agency or criminal organisation has a very long reach. Fortunately you can still buy paper, pens, envelopes and stamps to communicate.