Windows 7 and Windows A has definitely been shown to be better than Windows 10 when it comes to privacy.
But those Windows 7 and 8 always had a service called the customer experience improvement program or
seat and is there to help Microsoft decide what's working and what isn't.
So they can design improvements and determine how to fix the problems.
So in order to do this it sends out telemetry data to Microsoft about performance performance of your
operating system and so Microsoft applications.
So it is a privacy concern.
It's not clear what all that data is and definitely some of that data is undesirable.
There's also recently been controversy that dates to Windows 7 and 8 will be enabling the same sort
of tracking features is Windows 10.
But that hasn't really been shown to be true.
But what these updates have done is change the kind of data that is being collected by this customer
experience improvement program or the CPP.
But according to Microsoft if you have installed these new days which most of them are supposed to be
optional then if you have seen disabled then the related window telemetry will not be sent to Microsoft
and you can choose to trust that statement or not.
But my advice is STILL do not install option days unless you've checked first what they are and made
sure that you need them.
And also we want to turn off the seat so Windows 7 and Windows 8 is pretty much the same.
So if in Windows 7 we go down to the Start Menu and type experience and the only difference is in Windows
8 you need to go to the Metro start screen and type experience and there you can see change customer
experience improvement program settings.
Just click on that and change this to now as it already is set to and save your changes and then you'll
no longer be sending the telemetry information to Microsoft.
Now there is also all the programs that send out this telemetry information so Microsoft Security Essentials
is one of them.
That is the old version of the Microsoft antivirus or malware software which on my machine has been
superseded by defender.
But if you have Microsoft Security Essentials you need to go into the Help section and go into the customer
experience improvement and you need to disable that.
Next is Windows Media Player.
So if you start your windows media player and you can see here that this hasn't been run before and
if you go in recommended settings then it will be set to sending out telemetry information.
If you click on customer settings you can see here that there's actually quite a lot of settings to
stop it from speaking out to the Internet.
But of course this is going to disable functionality display media information from the internet in
the music files by retrieving media information from Internet download usage rights automatically when
I play or sync a file.
So you don't really want any of these things if privacy is of concern but actually for even click next
do you really want to be using Windows Media Player.
I mean it is not the best choice if privacy is something you care about.
I would recommend the elsi install and use this instead.
This is a much better option and it's a much better application and it's free.
If you create next.
So then we need to go to Tools Options and the privacy tab.
So if I click alt file tools options privacy tab uncheck these and this is the one here around the customer
experience improvement program so you need to make sure that is disabled
close this.
Now some of you may still be using the Windows Live Messenger.
I don't have that on here.
That also sends out information and I don't know what sort of information that sends out about your
chat sessions but you definitely want to enable that so that's within options and there's a privacy
setting in there so you need to check allow Microsoft to collect data about your computer and how you
use Windows Live.
Well so office office sends telemetry information anything from Office 2010 desktop and or both.
And I don't have a copy of that on here either.
But if you go to phials options trust center and click the button marked Trust Center settings privacy
options and check the box marked sign up for the customer experience improvement program or depending
on what version you've got.
You may see send as information about your use and performance of office software to help improve your
Microsoft experience.
And you want to make sure that that's disabled.
Now to be safe you can also remove the updates.
As usual I recommend that you do backups and you should read by googling the Kaybee numbers.
Each of these I'm going to show you here.
These are all the ones that have been suggested as relating to sending telemetry information some have
superseded the other ones.
But Google these and find out what they are.
But if you run this command you'll find that this will actually disable you to run ACMD
and you set in and that will actually uninstall the day.
And these are all the updates that you want to remove if you want to be doubly sure.
You can block the windows 10 upgrade notifications if you see this link here and follow the quick instructions.
That is the official windows page for how to disable the windows 10 notifications.
If you find you need a little bit more help.
And check out this Web site here.
This will give you some pictures as well for how to disable it.
A third option if that's not enough and you find still annoying when there's 10 things popping up is
this free tool that can remove and disable the get Windows 10 notification area icon on Windows 7 and
Windows.
Is this GW you x control panel.
Download and install I bought hopefully and I've heard good things.
If you follow the instructions on here and make the relevant changes then you should be good and you
should get no more Windows 10 notifications.