Got to love a good PC builder. He asked me if I wanted Windows 10 "cleaned up". I asked how much, and he said "oh, it's free", so I said fine! Followed this video and every setting was already disabled!
I just built a new PC and it's my first Windows PC since like 2001. I've seen a few of these videos and they all go over similar settings but i think no matter what your uncheck, disable or delete, Microsoft will always have something in the system to track you. Thanks for the video. I'll definitely be doing this once home on Monday.
they also not only use microsofts automatic update, anti virus and windows firewall they also use common software that have such abilities such as nvidia software (can auto update without asking) here whatsapp used to spy silently someones smartphone: th-cam.com/video/8-bAwcSqxmY/w-d-xo.html it dont need to ring the phone or haveing the display activated
I usually uninstall programs like OneDrive, Cortana and Edge Browser using an uninstaller like Revo because it also checks and removes leftover folders and registry files. It will create a restore point for you too.I had done many of the steps mentioned here, but others like task scheduler and the regedit settings I did not. I am creating a restore point after your suggested settings as well. Thanks for this informative tutorial and explaining things clearly instead of just linking to a script that doesn't tell you exactly what is being done. Much appreciated.
Good to explain this and show people where those settings are, but as you said, on the next Windows update they could all turn back on again. As an IT Pro, I haven't got time to do all this continually, so highly recommend O&O Shutup 10. Each setting (and there are hundreds) can be individually unchecked, or you can chose different levels of removal (recommended is usually enough). Then, one click and a reboot later and it's all done (you can also take recovery point backups before applying). Much easier for the average user, and it's free. Also, I'd recommend disabling the 'Connected User Experience and Telemetry' service (DiagTrack), which is one service that will stop tons of telemetry collection.
@@Lofote Linux of course, but most of the software I use is not supported, so I run Linux on a couple 'puters and I still need one Windoze machine unfortunately.
You communicate on a whole new level, dude, like talking your best friend through the ways to do everything; voted for 4 sure me,amongst the elite of video producers, gonna make sure to support you, thanks a million😊
Thanks for sharing your expertise. I just want to let others know that if they leave a space between "Allow Telemetry" in regedit (like I initially did), it won't work. Now I am managed by an (imaginary) organization. Perfect. Just the way I want it to be :)
3:44 Remove or Delete MS account. 4:30 Remove One Drive & MS Teams 5:19 Turn off MS Notifications & Suggestions 5:58 Turn off MS Advertising & Speech Recognition 6:36 Clear & turn off Custom Dictionary 6:55 Turn off Location 7:58 Termimate Diagnostics Data 10:22 Windows Security 11:43 Telemetry Services 12:26 Application & Customer Experience 13:49 Disabling Required Telemetry Data
@@Tech-geeky Re Teams: My last company started using Teams to do everything but wiping my butt. Thankfully they pulled a stunt that really urinified me, so over the course of a week I cleaned out all my personal tools and whatnot and retired (after 62 years in the business) at 1430 hours one fine Friday, the last day of the pay period. As I was already on full SS and on Railroad Retirement as well, it was satisfying to send a Company Wide Email telling everyone my retirement party would commence at the local watering hole at 1500, nuked my hard drive, then called the GM from the street, informing him my keys, security badges and nuked laptop was at the Security desk downstairs. HR went into hysterics by my not doing an "exit interview", for which they demanded I come in. I sent them an invoice for a day's consulting service, payable in advance. Never happened. Got a final paycheck in the mail the next payday. Lots of voicemails asking for information, but alas, I forgot to reply to them.
Great video! I had already made most of these changes in Windows 10 and those settings persisted through the update to Windows 11 but there were a few things in this video that I hadn't changed in Windows 10 so it was nice to do that now. Thanks for making this video.
Great video, very well explained, thanks. But it would have been so much better if you had explained the exact purpose of each step - i.e. how it helps privacy, so I can decide whether to do that step or not, as you said at the beginning. You only give this info once or twice, and it's not obvious in quite a few cases. Thanks again.
Well, it's really simple. Turning the options of stops Windows from sending data to Microsoft and it's partners without your consent. It helps privacy by giving you privacy, can't really explain it easier honestly. Leave the options on, and you're not completely private and someone somewhere is gathering data from you.
Thanks for sharing a step-by-step process without using scripts or programs. If you are running Win 10/11 Pro, can you specify a policy instead of using regedit? Is a policy permanent (not affected by Microsoft updates)? BTW, can you make these changes by defining a policy?
Yes you can change this setting in group policy editor. However, I don't like going to group policy editor because a lot of people have the home version and editing the registry works in all the versions of windows. I've tested this with many different systems in this setting does not revert with Windows update. I've even made the setting in 2004 and upgraded to 21H2 and the setting stay the same. So editing the registry is permanent.
Hi, thank you for your easy to follow tutorials. I am registered as Blind here in the UK and I have to say I think you are one of the best on TH-cam for IT tips and general knowledge. Thanks again.
The reason people use the scripts or programs to do it, is because it changes settings system wide. In Win 10, if you uninstall things like One Drive or other MS apps, when the next build is installed they come back. You need to deprovision the package to prevent it from re-installing.
I work with IT security everyday, and the only thing I don't agree with in this video, is your recommendation of Windows Defender. We can agree it's better than nothing, but sadly Windows Defender is not good enough. I have seen that to many times, using Windows Defender would for me be the same as driving with your seatbelt behind your bag, but plug into safety, as long nothing happens everything is great. With that said great video, keep up the good work :)
As a full-time computer technician I can tell you that I see just as many computers in my shop infected with all the major antiviruses installed as I do Windows Defender. I haven't seen any statistical difference in detection rate with Windows defender and other antiviruses. With that said, the reason I recommend Windows Defender is because out of all the different retail antiviruses it takes the least amount of system resources.
I like to think I'm pretty computer literate and know lots of things to make windows appear to be moving faster, but quite a few of the things on here wouldn't have occurred to me. Thanks for giving me some extra tips to make my computing less of a marketing goldmine for Microsoft.
I followed what you said and there were a few places i had not done which i thank you for the way you make us feel as "one on one" or as John Calvin said, Like a best friend helping you. Now i did have a problem at first with "allow telemetry" and i wondered about 32 or 64 which mine is a 64 bit. But once i put the two words together at 32 it shut it down as they cannot get their "required diagnostic". Again, Thank you for being very cool and making it easy to follow for us not so good at knowing much about computers.
I just ordered a shirt, and thanks for these videos. I'm retired I.S. (Information Systems) and your help is keeping me somewhat updated with the new technology. I did update a windows 10 laptop to windows 11 with the scripts and it worked like a charm. I also did it on my own computer though during the video not realizing I was to run them on the computer that I was upgrading, I already have windows 11 on it so I hope I didn't screw my pc up doing the scripts.
Hi man. Allow Telemetry value 0 is not stopping windows to send required data. In your video it is showing off, but on my PC, this registry mod is not working. I believe Microsoft is also doing their best to turn this harder to do on your own. I am currently researching for for another solution. Beside this, great video, it is nice to see someone taking time for this kind of stuff and helping others who have no clue about what is happening behind the scenes.
Thank you! Best IT channel around! I’m still battling out the 100% disk usage on the old windows 10 Dell G3 3779 laptop with the i5-8300H. Trying to get that issue sorted out before firing up a new computer I have.
Local account - check OneDrive - no can do, I use it for personal and work Teams - no can do, mandatory for work The rest I’ll be double checking soon.
Thank you very much for posting this video. I recently bought a new laptop installed with spyware called Win 11, took one look & set it back to Win10 but it too comes with spooky invasive garbage. I studied IT & have used MS Windows in all it's incarnations & Mac OS but since retiring have not kept up with the newest invasions into my privacy by Microsoft. I had already turned off most of the stuff instinctively but your instructions helped to erase more of this BS. 👍
Good video, but like google's android, there's a good chance that the spy settings available through the GUI are just for show, and ignored by the OS. MS didn't go through the trouble of writing all that spyware just to allow users to turn it off so easily.
This is true, theres a video on here showing through 3rd party apps (like network watching) that telemetry still happens, even if everything is off, they are tracking you.
OOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! The sponsor message from yourself is awesome!!! There's 4 of you!!!! Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cool!!!! Please do more ads like this I actually watched the whole thing!!!! The facebook community guidelines shirt is soooooooooooooo spot on!!!!
I do not trust turning off Windows defender.... If you turn it off... Usually it ALWAYS turns itself back on.... Idk if that's the same case for Win 11 or not but I usually have to disable defender from Local Group Policy Editor to make the changes stick (Win 10).... But I'm aware that not every version of Win 10 (or possibly 11) comes with policy editor..... I know home versions of windows do not get this amazing tool!
Great Fix! been using these recommendations for a few days now and my windows system is still running smooth. Which isn't always the case when it comes to those scripts you mentioned in the beginning of the video. Now I'm using a MS account for my login and I have a MS 365 subscription that came with my PC from Microsoft. For cloud storage I do still use OneDrive in the cloud not on my desktop or file system and I keep find my device turned on just in case. Now I would like to note I use a VPN with a permeant Kill Switch meaning an App can't just bypass it I have to shut that off if I want the Windows Store to load. If I wanted and need total privacy though I would just switch to Linux but I am still happy i can cut out MS seeing what I'm doing across applications
Hey my friend CYBER CPU Tech, I am sorry I don't even know your real name yet, Please keep doing all that you're doing! I just found your Channel a couple of days ago. I have already Successfully installed Windows 11 on two old computers I own. Yes they did have "VALID LEGAL LICENSES! For Windows 10 Professional OS. Rolled over to Windows 11 Pro.. without a hitch. Many Thanks to you.. Yes I do realize that MS will probably "force me to wipe them and Do a complete "Fresh install of Windows 10 PRO...I do this for the experience and practice.
I just found your channel and I love your approach. I feel like you can probably make friends with everyone you meet lol you mention in the video about turning off the Microsoft account but you don't actually explain how to do this. I've been having non stop headaches with my account as somehow my administrator Microsoft account is set at 11yrs old so I can't do a bunch of things and can't figure out how to turn it off. Any suggestions?
If you go to the Microsoft website it will tell you that clicking these things off turns it from checking it every time to some of the time. Like the first time you use that application is always sent to Microsoft, but not every time after that, just sometimes. Read carefully the description you are checking, because not giving you a benefit isn't a promise to not track. They even admit they can "accidentally" read your Office documents, when they check each one of them that you use macros in. That's pretty invasive.
"and from there we can go ahead and flip that one off too" I like your choice of words, friend. Personally I'd like to flip off every company utilizing invasive practices but that unfortunately often makes using tech very cumbersome.
A good thing for people to know is how to make an ISO install file that will reinstall their computer as it is when they make the file so they can bring back their system easily whenever they have to reinstall it, which still seems to be something that still needs to be done every year or so. The cruft just builds and builds and fragments get left behind as you change your computer with time and it seems to cause it to slow down. It's good to just blow everything away and start over from time to time too. Of course ALWAYS back up stuff to an external drive as well as any other data that one might want to save.
And as usual just like every other person making such a coherent comment you neglected to mention what those games are applications actually are so that way if someone knows how to help you get past that hurdle then you can Can't read your mind. Also...system specs help
chris clark He said Windows security works well enough on it's own. I am done with McAfee. Every year I get bombarded one month earlier with a plethora of fearmongering warnings to get me to buy a new subscription. The only two options are to buy a subscription or "ACCEPT THE RISK!". What f#@king risk when I have 4 months left on my subscription? It's pathetic and annoying fearmongering. I'm just going to use Widows security now.
I'm getting a new computer (if Build Redux ever gets around to building it) and I've bookmarked 3 of your videos to get my PC started up and safer than Microsoft would like.
@13:50 - Privacy & security > Diagnostics & feedback. I have done a 'Start menu' quick search for 'Diagnostics & feedback', however re-direct back to the same place. Yet again MS have moved, renamed, or hidden/buried useful things some-where¿. So more clicking, RegEdit, shell::{shortcuts} to get to basic settings (:Shacks-Head: at MS). Apart from the 'Bubble/Plastic UI' they have been trying to push since WinXP, has been none to very little performance improvements. The Win10 Live title and non-grouped taskbar application helpful for day to day workflow. Win11 Dark UI Color (notepad, explore windows) great, however the workflow/outlay usable. MS features for a long-time in the OS and apps have been add and removed due to performance issues (Office Word Paper-clip helper) or very a small amount of people using then, however what do you think bloat-ware dose and is!. MS need to under-standard they will get not get real user data using telemetry, if they plan to drive the company design/workflow for their OS from telemetry. as those whom turn it off are more adapted to using a computer for there personal workflow (if/when allowed). If MS plan to drive the company design/workflow for their OS from telemetry, they need to under-standard those whom turn it off/change setting are more adapted to using a computer for there personal workflow (if/when allowed). With this much tweaking and third-party software its time to move to Linux full-time. Where an update will not revert my settings, place more ads, install unwanted apps, pay for free apps on the MS store, and so on... Window 11 is like "Lipstick on a pig".
Well rich this isn't working on latest windows 11 23H2. I tried this trick and everything is disabled as you have shown in the video but looks like its still sending required data to MS. The PcaPatchDbTask restarts after restarting windows.
Hey man, thank you for your video. A friendly suggestion, we would be really happy if you use DARK MODE in your future videos. It is way easier On our eyes.
Thank you for making this movie, it's lucky that beginners can see it because of the leading teaching and analysis of various considerations. The shapes that appear may be very special and novel to Asians; fortunately, the integration of browser extensions was successful this week, and TH-cam automatically generates subtitles for localization, so that I can understand half of it (there may be a problem of mistranslation), I am thankful for that! ( DeepL translation ) 謝謝你製作了這個影片，帶領式的教學與各種考量的分析說明，初學者能看到感到很幸運。出現的造形，令亞洲人感到很特別，尤其是在影片中，感覺很新奇；幸好這星期整合瀏覽器擴展成功，TH-cam 自動產生字幕本地化，才能理解一半(可能有翻譯錯誤的問題)，謝謝你。( DeepL 翻譯 )
Bro your videos are kind of long BUT!!!!!!,,i appreciate that because you break things down alot more than alot of the tec videos i watch where they speak with speed and im most time im left confused,,so keep up the good work..you teach rather than just throwing videos left right and center just for views.
Rich, I have tried to implement these ideas on windows 10 pro (fresh install on an old Dell G3). I actually bought a pro key off of VIPscd-key.. had to do a work around to get the key to work... Didn't use a Microsoft account however windows 10 has not auto offered to update to windows 11, maybe because of the Microsoft account? So, while attempting to do the edits in reg edit I came across that the system states incorrect parameters when trying to click ok or apply. Perhaps I need to get windows 11 before these settings can be changed? Seriously your videos are the only reason I am considering running windows 11 over Linux PopOS.
Call me crazy but I do not believe a single bit that sliding a slider from "on" to "off" will do ANYTHING. Its proprietary closed source. They can do under the hood whateeeeeever they want. No matter if you slide some fancy sliders left or right.
Great content! I have a new asus laptop running win11 and my cursor often jumps or dances around the screen. Do you know if there is an easy fix for this problem? Cheers
The only two things you suggested that I did not do was to uninstall One Drive and Teams, because I use both of those extensively for work. Just curious if keeping them sort of defeats the purpose of the other settings, giving MS a way in despite the other changes? Or am I still good while keeping them if I do everything else?
nah it doesn't defeat the purpose because they can only monitor when you access teams or cloud with the other settings off there isn't much they can collect from that.
For the last 15 plus years or so I have Shut off ALL WINDOWS UPDATES. My Computer never seems to get Old & Slow. The only reason I upgrade from Vista to 10 was an issue with Cisco Anyconnect. I hate Windows Updates. Thanks always looking for more ways to Shut down on Microsoft. No More EOL
I once ran one of those scripts without really knowing what it really did, and I got my browser under an "organisation", and some features were force disabled/enabled and my clipboard was gone. I tried to "Revert Changes", and even load the restore point I created beforehand, but none of them fixed the problem. It is only after a lot of research that I found out how to fix that. It's pretty annoying that sometimes it's everything or nothing
I have windows 10 home edition. I cannot find the "Diagnostics Data" button that shows either On or Off. I still edited my registry according to your instructions. Thank you so much for all your helpful videos.
I believe that all of those settings will need to be done for each user (or each account) that uses the physical computer? If so, it will have to be repeated for each user. I agree with our host stating that, although there are scripts that will do all or most of this, most folks will not understand what was changed, and will not be able to "un-change" the settings if they run into a problem -- because they will not know which setting caused the problem. I would like to know where each of those settings are stored. In other words, when you use the GUI and click this and that and change things, those changes are being stored somewhere in some file(s) -- perhaps the registry? There is likely a way to run a command for each of those changes that will update that same file, which could be run from the command prompt or the power shell. This would be helpful to understand, because then we could write our own .bat files to change what we want, and we would know exactly what we changed and where the change is stored. This will also make it somewhat automated to make the same changes for each user. Windows has gotten way more complicated, since the days of win.ini But that complication does not change the underlying principle that everything is stored in a file. Knowing which files, and which data within the files, would go a long way in understanding and maintaining our settings. Great video!
I was using MS local account till I started watching your videos. I went in and applied most of your suggestions. And then I screwed up when I created my own local account. I did it and it was successful but I forgot to do it as an administrator. Now, I'm trying to figure out if I can recover the MS local account so that I can correct my mistake. Is there any way to do this or am I screwed for good? I had important work related folders that I need and I can't seem to access them under my new local account. Any help would be greatly appreciated...🙏🙏
Got to love a good PC builder. He asked me if I wanted Windows 10 "cleaned up". I asked how much, and he said "oh, it's free", so I said fine! Followed this video and every setting was already disabled!
Buy that dude a few dinners
I just built a new PC and it's my first Windows PC since like 2001. I've seen a few of these videos and they all go over similar settings but i think no matter what your uncheck, disable or delete, Microsoft will always have something in the system to track you.
Thanks for the video. I'll definitely be doing this once home on Monday.
So learn programming and change the source code to assert dominance on your desktop pc
@@high-captain-BaLrog I absolutely love that answer!
Thumbs up.. keep fighting! Microsofts self indulgent intrusiveness is incredibly offensive!!
But you are aware that apple and Google are far more spying?
they also not only use microsofts automatic update, anti virus and windows firewall
they also use common software that have such abilities such as nvidia software (can auto update without asking)
here whatsapp used to spy silently someones smartphone:
th-cam.com/video/8-bAwcSqxmY/w-d-xo.html
it dont need to ring the phone or haveing the display activated
I usually uninstall programs like OneDrive, Cortana and Edge Browser using an uninstaller like Revo because it also checks and removes leftover folders and registry files. It will create a restore point for you too.I had done many of the steps mentioned here, but others like task scheduler and the regedit settings I did not. I am creating a restore point after your suggested settings as well. Thanks for this informative tutorial and explaining things clearly instead of just linking to a script that doesn't tell you exactly what is being done. Much appreciated.
ok bot lol
@@m.m.4609 Bruh
Good to explain this and show people where those settings are, but as you said, on the next Windows update they could all turn back on again. As an IT Pro, I haven't got time to do all this continually, so highly recommend O&O Shutup 10. Each setting (and there are hundreds) can be individually unchecked, or you can chose different levels of removal (recommended is usually enough). Then, one click and a reboot later and it's all done (you can also take recovery point backups before applying). Much easier for the average user, and it's free. Also, I'd recommend disabling the 'Connected User Experience and Telemetry' service (DiagTrack), which is one service that will stop tons of telemetry collection.
You mean O&O Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for 10 years?
@tonyb3629 thank you so much for the info......I'm very tired with telemetry......I really missed my windows xp and 7
The solution is to ditch windows.
@@RicardoSantos-oz3uj ... And use what? Mac os x? iOS? Android? All of them spy far more
@@Lofote Linux of course, but most of the software I use is not supported, so I run Linux on a couple 'puters and I still need one Windoze machine unfortunately.
Yep, just took all your advice. The shocker for me was I was NOT already using Local Login! I thought I was.. Thanks!
You communicate on a whole new level, dude, like talking your best friend through the ways to do everything; voted for 4 sure me,amongst the elite of video producers, gonna make sure to support you, thanks a million😊
Thanks for sharing your expertise. I just want to let others know that if they leave a space between "Allow Telemetry" in regedit (like I initially did), it won't work. Now I am managed by an (imaginary) organization. Perfect. Just the way I want it to be :)
I did the same mistake 😆
Thanks.
3:44 Remove or Delete MS account.
4:30 Remove One Drive & MS Teams
5:19 Turn off MS Notifications & Suggestions
5:58 Turn off MS Advertising & Speech Recognition
6:36 Clear & turn off Custom Dictionary
6:55 Turn off Location
7:58 Termimate Diagnostics Data
10:22 Windows Security
11:43 Telemetry Services
12:26 Application & Customer Experience
13:49 Disabling Required Telemetry Data
Personal users don't use Teams much, but heard over if a business, and they will have a different view.
@@Tech-geeky Re Teams: My last company started using Teams to do everything but wiping my butt. Thankfully they pulled a stunt that really urinified me, so over the course of a week I cleaned out all my personal tools and whatnot and retired (after 62 years in the business) at 1430 hours one fine Friday, the last day of the pay period.
As I was already on full SS and on Railroad Retirement as well, it was satisfying to send a Company Wide Email telling everyone my retirement party would commence at the local watering hole at 1500, nuked my hard drive, then called the GM from the street, informing him my keys, security badges and nuked laptop was at the Security desk downstairs.
HR went into hysterics by my not doing an "exit interview", for which they demanded I come in. I sent them an invoice for a day's consulting service, payable in advance. Never happened. Got a final paycheck in the mail the next payday. Lots of voicemails asking for information, but alas, I forgot to reply to them.
Just got a new laptop, and this time I am setting it up to be as private as possible. This is a good start. Thanks.
Great video! I had already made most of these changes in Windows 10 and those settings persisted through the update to Windows 11 but there were a few things in this video that I hadn't changed in Windows 10 so it was nice to do that now. Thanks for making this video.
Great video, very well explained, thanks. But it would have been so much better if you had explained the exact purpose of each step - i.e. how it helps privacy, so I can decide whether to do that step or not, as you said at the beginning. You only give this info once or twice, and it's not obvious in quite a few cases. Thanks again.
Well, it's really simple. Turning the options of stops Windows from sending data to Microsoft and it's partners without your consent. It helps privacy by giving you privacy, can't really explain it easier honestly. Leave the options on, and you're not completely private and someone somewhere is gathering data from you.
Thanks for sharing a step-by-step process without using scripts or programs. If you are running Win 10/11 Pro, can you specify a policy instead of using regedit? Is a policy permanent (not affected by Microsoft updates)? BTW, can you make these changes by defining a policy?
Yes you can change this setting in group policy editor. However, I don't like going to group policy editor because a lot of people have the home version and editing the registry works in all the versions of windows.
I've tested this with many different systems in this setting does not revert with Windows update. I've even made the setting in 2004 and upgraded to 21H2 and the setting stay the same. So editing the registry is permanent.
Those who can write scripts, do not use windows
@@joseantoniomclauchlan2859 I can write scripts and I use Windows.
@@CyberCPU AHHHHHHHHHH. I forgot you would have to manually activate group policy on windows home.
@@three36ixx How do you do that? IIRC Group policy is not possible in Windows Home. Thanks
Now that is a presentation man, I see the work you put into the green screening, scripting etc. Fantastic is too small of a word to use, thank you.
Hi, thank you for your easy to follow tutorials. I am registered as Blind here in the UK and I have to say I think you are one of the best on TH-cam for IT tips and general knowledge. Thanks again.
The reason people use the scripts or programs to do it, is because it changes settings system wide. In Win 10, if you uninstall things like One Drive or other MS apps, when the next build is installed they come back. You need to deprovision the package to prevent it from re-installing.
I work with IT security everyday, and the only thing I don't agree with in this video, is your recommendation of Windows Defender. We can agree it's better than nothing, but sadly Windows Defender is not good enough. I have seen that to many times, using Windows Defender would for me be the same as driving with your seatbelt behind your bag, but plug into safety, as long nothing happens everything is great. With that said great video, keep up the good work :)
As a full-time computer technician I can tell you that I see just as many computers in my shop infected with all the major antiviruses installed as I do Windows Defender.
I haven't seen any statistical difference in detection rate with Windows defender and other antiviruses. With that said, the reason I recommend Windows Defender is because out of all the different retail antiviruses it takes the least amount of system resources.
You are amazing. Your voice and delivery are great and you have a wonderful way of explaining things. The video editing is also top notch.
I like to think I'm pretty computer literate and know lots of things to make windows appear to be moving faster, but quite a few of the things on here wouldn't have occurred to me. Thanks for giving me some extra tips to make my computing less of a marketing goldmine for Microsoft.
I followed what you said and there were a few places i had not done which i thank you for the way you make us feel as "one on one" or as John Calvin said, Like a best friend helping you. Now i did have a problem at first with "allow telemetry" and i wondered about 32 or 64 which mine is a 64 bit. But once i put the two words together at 32 it shut it down as they cannot get their "required diagnostic". Again, Thank you for being very cool and making it easy to follow for us not so good at knowing much about computers.
I just ordered a shirt, and thanks for these videos. I'm retired I.S. (Information Systems) and your help is keeping me somewhat updated with the new technology. I did update a windows 10 laptop to windows 11 with the scripts and it worked like a charm. I also did it on my own computer though during the video not realizing I was to run them on the computer that I was upgrading, I already have windows 11 on it so I hope I didn't screw my pc up doing the scripts.
Hi man. Allow Telemetry value 0 is not stopping windows to send required data. In your video it is showing off, but on my PC, this registry mod is not working. I believe Microsoft is also doing their best to turn this harder to do on your own. I am currently researching for for another solution. Beside this, great video, it is nice to see someone taking time for this kind of stuff and helping others who have no clue about what is happening behind the scenes.
Try it with no space. It has to be exactly how I type it.
Thanks a lot this one worked !@@CyberCPU
Yea dident work for me either man :( WAIT nvm if it dident work for you do it with NO SPACES!! It worked!!! Thank you!!!! 🙏🏻
Just found your channel recently. Between the content info and the funny shirt promo you did, I'm now happily subbed :)
Thank you! Best IT channel around!
I’m still battling out the 100% disk usage on the old windows 10 Dell G3 3779 laptop with the i5-8300H.
Trying to get that issue sorted out before firing up a new computer I have.
An SSD is the way to go. An 8th gen i5 runs great with an SSD.
Yeah get an SSD either a Sata or M.2/NVME if your board has an M.2 or NVME slot
I’m building my new computer and installing 11 Pro. I’m binge watching your vids homie! Thanks for the knowledge
Local account - check
OneDrive - no can do, I use it for personal and work
Teams - no can do, mandatory for work
The rest I’ll be double checking soon.
its a joke having to turn all of this off when it should not be on in the first place
Thank you very much for posting this video. I recently bought a new laptop installed with spyware called Win 11, took one look & set it back to Win10 but it too comes with spooky invasive garbage. I studied IT & have used MS Windows in all it's incarnations & Mac OS but since retiring have not kept up with the newest invasions into my privacy by Microsoft. I had already turned off most of the stuff instinctively but your instructions helped to erase more of this BS. 👍
Great explanation. Bring more privacy settings videos in future. Please make a settings to stay anonymous in windows 11.
When will Microsoft learn we don't need James Bond in our private PC the hardware we own. 😂
The telemetry regedit was the one I was most satisfied with! Thanks
Glad it helped.
Is what I utilized on Win10 to prevent updates. I only re-enable after I figure I need to update.
in my pc it dint work . I still get the "sending required data. why is that ?
@@tilestora1 "AllowTelemetry" must not have a space. Did you add one?
Good video, but like google's android, there's a good chance that the spy settings available through the GUI are just for show, and ignored by the OS. MS didn't go through the trouble of writing all that spyware just to allow users to turn it off so easily.
This is true, theres a video on here showing through 3rd party apps (like network watching)
that telemetry still happens, even if everything is off, they are tracking you.
If it's anything like disabling windows update you're probably right
pretty much. Only way not to get spied on is to opt out of windows. I use linux for the most part, and windows purely for gaming
@@thekostrus3105 I use pc purely for gaming, I prey for Gaben and steam os
This is good to know. Those notifications and other stuff confuse people, I teach seniors and it makes most nervous.
This is a wonderful video and thank you so much! I subbed a while back and appreciate your work.
OOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! The sponsor message from yourself is awesome!!! There's 4 of you!!!! Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cool!!!! Please do more ads like this I actually watched the whole thing!!!! The facebook community guidelines shirt is soooooooooooooo spot on!!!!
"Fart when people hug you, it makes them feel strong" I'M FUCKING DYING HERE!!!! LMAOOOOOOOOOOO!
I have to use a microsoft account because I have onedrive hooked up :(
I do not trust turning off Windows defender.... If you turn it off... Usually it ALWAYS turns itself back on.... Idk if that's the same case for Win 11 or not but I usually have to disable defender from Local Group Policy Editor to make the changes stick (Win 10).... But I'm aware that not every version of Win 10 (or possibly 11) comes with policy editor..... I know home versions of windows do not get this amazing tool!
Absolutely crazy that these settings are not turned off by default!
Telemetry is one of the reasons I switched from Windows to Linux a few years ago.
Starts at 03:43
👍👍👍
Would have been good to see analysis of internet traffic from this ver vs vanilla Win11.
Great Fix! been using these recommendations for a few days now and my windows system is still running smooth. Which isn't always the case when it comes to those scripts you mentioned in the beginning of the video. Now I'm using a MS account for my login and I have a MS 365 subscription that came with my PC from Microsoft. For cloud storage I do still use OneDrive in the cloud not on my desktop or file system and I keep find my device turned on just in case. Now I would like to note I use a VPN with a permeant Kill Switch meaning an App can't just bypass it I have to shut that off if I want the Windows Store to load. If I wanted and need total privacy though I would just switch to Linux but I am still happy i can cut out MS seeing what I'm doing across applications
When typing in AllowTelemetry , don't put a space in between words or the change in diagnostic data will not take effect. Thanks!
Thanks. Did this for all of my Windows 10 and Windows 11 computers with no issues. Appreciate the info.
Sounds like Linux distros are sounding more and more appealing by the day...
great video, thanks, man
now all i need is a way to get rid of msedge for good
Hey my friend CYBER CPU Tech, I am sorry I don't even know your real name yet, Please keep doing all that you're doing! I just found your Channel a couple of days ago. I have already Successfully installed
Windows 11 on two old computers I own. Yes they did have "VALID LEGAL LICENSES! For Windows 10 Professional OS. Rolled over to Windows 11 Pro.. without a hitch. Many Thanks to you.. Yes I do realize that MS will probably "force me to wipe them and
Do a complete "Fresh install of Windows 10 PRO...I do this for the experience and practice.
I just found your channel and I love your approach. I feel like you can probably make friends with everyone you meet lol you mention in the video about turning off the Microsoft account but you don't actually explain how to do this. I've been having non stop headaches with my account as somehow my administrator Microsoft account is set at 11yrs old so I can't do a bunch of things and can't figure out how to turn it off. Any suggestions?
Remember then Windows xp and 7 didnt have any bloatware or telemetry stuff?
Yep, good times.
Enjoying you videos and appreciate the information you share - Thanks. T-shirt 'commercial was great! On yeah, like the Dr Seuss Christmas tree.
It's A Charlie Brown Christmas tree. 😉😂🤣
@@CyberCPU HaHa Of Course!
This helped loosen the Microsoft noose from around my neck a little bit. Cheers!
If you go to the Microsoft website it will tell you that clicking these things off turns it from checking it every time to some of the time. Like the first time you use that application is always sent to Microsoft, but not every time after that, just sometimes. Read carefully the description you are checking, because not giving you a benefit isn't a promise to not track. They even admit they can "accidentally" read your Office documents, when they check each one of them that you use macros in. That's pretty invasive.
"and from there we can go ahead and flip that one off too"
I like your choice of words, friend. Personally I'd like to flip off every company utilizing invasive practices but that unfortunately often makes using tech very cumbersome.
Excellent information. Building a new PC soon, (first new one in some years) great tips to have ready. Thanks.
A good thing for people to know is how to make an ISO install file that will reinstall their computer as it is when they make the file so they can bring back their system easily whenever they have to reinstall it, which still seems to be something that still needs to be done every year or so. The cruft just builds and builds and fragments get left behind as you change your computer with time and it seems to cause it to slow down. It's good to just blow everything away and start over from time to time too. Of course ALWAYS back up stuff to an external drive as well as any other data that one might want to save.
dude the shirt you had on during the introduction of this video is epic 😁
There's a link for it in the description. 😉
haha I hate commercials but your shirt ad was pretty funny.
I use Linux for most tasks, but there are just a couple apps and games that require Windows. So here I am.
And as usual just like every other person making such a coherent comment you neglected to mention what those games are applications actually are so that way if someone knows how to help you get past that hurdle then you can
Can't read your mind.
Also...system specs help
Great video, very helpful, thank you.. one question, if I was using Windows security do I still to use my McAfee?
chris clark He said Windows security works well enough on it's own. I am done with McAfee. Every year I get bombarded one month earlier with a plethora of fearmongering warnings to get me to buy a new subscription. The only two options are to buy a subscription or "ACCEPT THE RISK!". What f#@king risk when I have 4 months left on my subscription? It's pathetic and annoying fearmongering. I'm just going to use Widows security now.
I'm getting a new computer (if Build Redux ever gets around to building it) and I've bookmarked 3 of your videos to get my PC started up and safer than Microsoft would like.
Literally everything except the task scheduler, I had everything, I kind of feel safe now.
LOVE that first t-shirt! Going to the website right now!
Super informative video!
Now I'm going to hit the like button and go take a shit (maybe make some coffee on my way back). Merry Christmas, everyone!
To much info. 😂😂😂
Great video, you really have a very good channel, nice to watch and you seem happy to do it. I really appreciate your work. keep doing it like this!
I love the charlie brown tree!!!
@13:50 - Privacy & security > Diagnostics & feedback.
I have done a 'Start menu' quick search for 'Diagnostics & feedback', however re-direct back to the same place. Yet again MS have moved, renamed, or hidden/buried useful things some-where¿.
So more clicking, RegEdit, shell::{shortcuts} to get to basic settings (:Shacks-Head: at MS).
Apart from the 'Bubble/Plastic UI' they have been trying to push since WinXP, has been none to very little performance improvements.
The Win10 Live title and non-grouped taskbar application helpful for day to day workflow.
Win11 Dark UI Color (notepad, explore windows) great, however the workflow/outlay usable.
MS features for a long-time in the OS and apps have been add and removed due to performance issues (Office Word Paper-clip helper) or very a small amount of people using then, however what do you think bloat-ware dose and is!.
MS need to under-standard they will get not get real user data using telemetry, if they plan to drive the company design/workflow for their OS from telemetry.
as those whom turn it off are more adapted to using a computer for there personal workflow (if/when allowed).
If MS plan to drive the company design/workflow for their OS from telemetry, they need to under-standard those whom turn it off/change setting are more adapted to using a computer for there personal workflow (if/when allowed).
With this much tweaking and third-party software its time to move to Linux full-time.
Where an update will not revert my settings, place more ads, install unwanted apps, pay for free apps on the MS store, and so on...
Window 11 is like "Lipstick on a pig".
"Fart When People Hug You" sounds like the name of a Korean philosopher.
You should also make a "Google stop spying". Oh, sorry. That is their business model. 😆
I actually shot a video on that topic this weekend. Is should be out soon.
What about the problem : Some of these settings are hidden of managed by your organization?
Well rich this isn't working on latest windows 11 23H2. I tried this trick and everything is disabled as you have shown in the video but looks like its still sending required data to MS.
The PcaPatchDbTask restarts after restarting windows.
Great information! There are programs that will do all of these steps. I'd like to see you cover one or two of those.
I need to log-in Microsoft account to play Xbox app but the rest of the privacy steps are useful to know. Thanks!
Hey man, thank you for your video.
A friendly suggestion, we would be really happy if you use DARK MODE in your future videos. It is way easier On our eyes.
omg, I really hope people that stick to Windows and need to do all this have a really good reason to stay.
Thank you for making this movie, it's lucky that beginners can see it because of the leading teaching and analysis of various considerations. The shapes that appear may be very special and novel to Asians; fortunately, the integration of browser extensions was successful this week, and TH-cam automatically generates subtitles for localization, so that I can understand half of it (there may be a problem of mistranslation), I am thankful for that! ( DeepL translation )
謝謝你製作了這個影片，帶領式的教學與各種考量的分析說明，初學者能看到感到很幸運。出現的造形，令亞洲人感到很特別，尤其是在影片中，感覺很新奇；幸好這星期整合瀏覽器擴展成功，TH-cam 自動產生字幕本地化，才能理解一半(可能有翻譯錯誤的問題)，謝謝你。( DeepL 翻譯 )
My wife loves you’re table! She’s a crafter!
It's an adjustable workbench from Home Depot.
Great info, thanks. I had already disabled most of it but there were some I didn't know about.👍😎
Thank you! You could not work for the government because you are too honest!
Bro your videos are kind of long BUT!!!!!!,,i appreciate that because you break things down alot more than alot of the tec videos i watch where they speak with speed and im most time im left confused,,so keep up the good work..you teach rather than just throwing videos left right and center just for views.
@shawnkeys4963 tl;dr
Rich, I have tried to implement these ideas on windows 10 pro (fresh install on an old Dell G3). I actually bought a pro key off of VIPscd-key.. had to do a work around to get the key to work... Didn't use a Microsoft account however windows 10 has not auto offered to update to windows 11, maybe because of the Microsoft account? So, while attempting to do the edits in reg edit I came across that the system states incorrect parameters when trying to click ok or apply. Perhaps I need to get windows 11 before these settings can be changed? Seriously your videos are the only reason I am considering running windows 11 over Linux PopOS.
Love your t-shirt :D
Thanks, there should be a link to it in the description.
Great video Rich, lve it. And I bet Microsoft hate you 😂 Many thanks, Malcolm from the Netherlands.
Following your guidelines it still shows "Sending required data" in Diagnostics & Feedback. I rechecked it and re-booted twice to no avail.
I love you channel and your expertise brother;
This channel is sheer brilliance
Call me crazy but I do not believe a single bit that sliding a slider from "on" to "off" will do ANYTHING. Its proprietary closed source. They can do under the hood whateeeeeever they want. No matter if you slide some fancy sliders left or right.
The fact the Windows 11 has settings for advertising options is, in itself, sad
All good. If you believe that sliding them pretty blue buttons makes a jot of difference that is. A lot of trust needed here.
Thank you so much huge help and you made it with people like me does know anything about computer barely can send email
Great content! I have a new asus laptop running win11 and my cursor often jumps or dances around the screen. Do you know if there is an easy fix for this problem? Cheers
The only two things you suggested that I did not do was to uninstall One Drive and Teams, because I use both of those extensively for work. Just curious if keeping them sort of defeats the purpose of the other settings, giving MS a way in despite the other changes? Or am I still good while keeping them if I do everything else?
nah it doesn't defeat the purpose because they can only monitor when you access teams or cloud with the other settings off there isn't much they can collect from that.
Works great on Windows 10. Thanks!
You're welcome!
i did most of these steps, but the task scheduler and registry ones i did not knew about
For the last 15 plus years or so I have Shut off ALL WINDOWS UPDATES. My Computer never seems to get Old & Slow. The only reason I upgrade from Vista to 10 was an issue with Cisco Anyconnect. I hate Windows Updates.
Thanks always looking for more ways to Shut down on Microsoft.
No More EOL
Excellent, just what I am looking for!
I once ran one of those scripts without really knowing what it really did, and I got my browser under an "organisation", and some features were force disabled/enabled and my clipboard was gone. I tried to "Revert Changes", and even load the restore point I created beforehand, but none of them fixed the problem. It is only after a lot of research that I found out how to fix that. It's pretty annoying that sometimes it's everything or nothing
that is how windows gets you they always want to be watching lol.
I have windows 10 home edition. I cannot find the "Diagnostics Data" button that shows either On or Off. I still edited my registry according to your instructions. Thank you so much for all your helpful videos.
It's a little different in Windows 10. If you added the registry key then it should be completely disabled.
Thanks, great information that i did not know ...
Awesome video. Thank you also Thank you for video to how install Win 11 to unsupported PC Thank you.
Thank u sir ,this is very helpful video ,keep it always up
Thanks.
I believe that all of those settings will need to be done for each user (or each account) that uses the physical computer?
If so, it will have to be repeated for each user.
I agree with our host stating that, although there are scripts that will do all or most of this, most folks will not understand what was changed, and will not be able to "un-change" the settings if they run into a problem -- because they will not know which setting caused the problem.
I would like to know where each of those settings are stored. In other words, when you use the GUI and click this and that and change things, those changes are being stored somewhere in some file(s) -- perhaps the registry?
There is likely a way to run a command for each of those changes that will update that same file, which could be run from the command prompt or the power shell.
This would be helpful to understand, because then we could write our own .bat files to change what we want, and we would know exactly what we changed and where the change is stored. This will also make it somewhat automated to make the same changes for each user.
Windows has gotten way more complicated, since the days of win.ini
But that complication does not change the underlying principle that everything is stored in a file. Knowing which files, and which data within the files, would go a long way in understanding and maintaining our settings.
Great video!
Good points.
I was using MS local account till I started watching your videos. I went in and applied most of your suggestions. And then I screwed up when I created my own local account. I did it and it was successful but I forgot to do it as an administrator. Now, I'm trying to figure out if I can recover the MS local account so that I can correct my mistake. Is there any way to do this or am I screwed for good? I had important work related folders that I need and I can't seem to access them under my new local account. Any help would be greatly appreciated...🙏🙏