Reset Network Data Usage in Windows 10  

Is there any other way of achieving what we have in mind? Or better yet - stopping it from collecting the data of Usage?

I reset my data today and find that having deleted the files they have been re-created.
However, although the new files appear to be updating regularly the information shown in the Data Usage remains at zero.

Anyone any thoughts??

Brink said:

Hello pewe, :)

If you haven't already, see if resetting your network data usage while in safe mode without networking may work better for you.

Thanks - I'll try that.

I have done a system restore and all the data is back, but wonder why deleting the contents of the SRU in safe mode should make a difference.

What I did was to 'disable' the network card and wifi in 'Device Manager', deleted the contents of the SRU directory then enabled the network and wifi in 'Device Manager again, which resulted in the files in the SRU directory being rebuilt.

The files were being updated and growing as I used the internet, but no stats were showing in Settings/Network and Internet/Data Usage until system restore.

What I have noticed is that when I go to Settings/Network and Internet/Data Usage the figures for Wifi and Ethernet are momentarily at zero, then the screen refreshes with the data instantly (presumably as it reads the files) but the refresh was not happening with the rebuilt files.

As an aside - I am surprised that no one has come up with an app to use the data in the files and reset them to zero after a specific time whilst building a new file of historic data.
With most people now having Mobile Broadband contracts with monthly data allowances that would be a very useful tool.

For example my landline broadband is so bad due to line length that I use 4G on a 4G router from 3 UK.
The contract has a capped monthly usage, so an easy way of monitoring my usage would be extremely useful.

If anyone wanted to use this,

- do you mind?
- how would the script be run ? (forgive the ignorance of a non-coder)

Please advise


Thanks

Please ignore the script in my previous post as it is not necessary to disable network adapters to reset the Data Usage.

Code:

@ECHO OFF
:: BatchGotAdmin (Run as Admin code starts)
REM --> Check for permissions
>nul 2>&1 "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\cacls.exe" "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\config\system"
REM --> If error flag set, we do not have admin.
if '%errorlevel%' NEQ '0' (
echo Requesting administrative privileges...
goto UACPrompt
) else ( goto gotAdmin )
:UACPrompt
echo Set UAC = CreateObject^("Shell.Application"^) > "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
echo UAC.ShellExecute "%~s0", "", "", "runas", 1 >> "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
"%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
exit /B
:gotAdmin
if exist "%temp%\getadmin.vbs" ( del "%temp%\getadmin.vbs" )
pushd "%CD%"
CD /D "%~dp0"
:: BatchGotAdmin (Run as Admin code ends)
:: Your codes should start from the following line
COLOR 1F
ECHO Commensing with Data Usage Reset:
ECHO.
ECHO Stopping Data Usage Services
ECHO.
sc config DusmSvc start= disabled
net stop DusmSvc > NUL 2>&1
net stop diagnosticshub.standardcollector.service > NUL 2>&1
net stop DPS > NUL 2>&1
ECHO.
ECHO Resetting Data Usage
echo Y | del /f /q "C:\Windows\System32\sru\*.*" > nul
ECHO.
ECHO Restarting Data Usage Services
ECHO.
sc config DusmSvc start= auto
net start DusmSvc > NUL 2>&1
net start diagnosticshub.standardcollector.service > NUL 2>&1
net start DPS > NUL 2>&1
ECHO.
ECHO.
ECHO Data Usage was Reset to 0
ECHO.
ECHO Press any key to exit.
pause > nul
:end