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Windows 7 and Windows A has definitely been shown to be better than Windows 10 when it comes to privacy.

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But those Windows 7 and 8 always had a service called the customer experience improvement program or

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seat and is there to help Microsoft decide what's working and what isn't.

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So they can design improvements and determine how to fix the problems.

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So in order to do this it sends out telemetry data to Microsoft about performance performance of your

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operating system and so Microsoft applications.

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So it is a privacy concern.

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It's not clear what all that data is and definitely some of that data is undesirable.

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There's also recently been controversy that dates to Windows 7 and 8 will be enabling the same sort

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of tracking features is Windows 10.

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But that hasn't really been shown to be true.

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But what these updates have done is change the kind of data that is being collected by this customer

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experience improvement program or the CPP.

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But according to Microsoft if you have installed these new days which most of them are supposed to be

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optional then if you have seen disabled then the related window telemetry will not be sent to Microsoft

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and you can choose to trust that statement or not.

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But my advice is STILL do not install option days unless you've checked first what they are and made

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sure that you need them.

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And also we want to turn off the seat so Windows 7 and Windows 8 is pretty much the same.

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So if in Windows 7 we go down to the Start Menu and type experience and the only difference is in Windows

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8 you need to go to the Metro start screen and type experience and there you can see change customer

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experience improvement program settings.

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Just click on that and change this to now as it already is set to and save your changes and then you'll

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no longer be sending the telemetry information to Microsoft.

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Now there is also all the programs that send out this telemetry information so Microsoft Security Essentials

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is one of them.

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That is the old version of the Microsoft antivirus or malware software which on my machine has been

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superseded by defender.

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But if you have Microsoft Security Essentials you need to go into the Help section and go into the customer

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experience improvement and you need to disable that.

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Next is Windows Media Player.

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So if you start your windows media player and you can see here that this hasn't been run before and

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if you go in recommended settings then it will be set to sending out telemetry information.

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If you click on customer settings you can see here that there's actually quite a lot of settings to

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stop it from speaking out to the Internet.

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But of course this is going to disable functionality display media information from the internet in

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the music files by retrieving media information from Internet download usage rights automatically when

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I play or sync a file.

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So you don't really want any of these things if privacy is of concern but actually for even click next

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do you really want to be using Windows Media Player.

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I mean it is not the best choice if privacy is something you care about.

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I would recommend the elsi install and use this instead.

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This is a much better option and it's a much better application and it's free.

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If you create next.

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So then we need to go to Tools Options and the privacy tab.

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So if I click alt file tools options privacy tab uncheck these and this is the one here around the customer

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experience improvement program so you need to make sure that is disabled

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close this.

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Now some of you may still be using the Windows Live Messenger.

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I don't have that on here.

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That also sends out information and I don't know what sort of information that sends out about your

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chat sessions but you definitely want to enable that so that's within options and there's a privacy

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setting in there so you need to check allow Microsoft to collect data about your computer and how you

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use Windows Live.

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Well so office office sends telemetry information anything from Office 2010 desktop and or both.

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And I don't have a copy of that on here either.

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But if you go to phials options trust center and click the button marked Trust Center settings privacy

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options and check the box marked sign up for the customer experience improvement program or depending

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on what version you've got.

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You may see send as information about your use and performance of office software to help improve your

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Microsoft experience.

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And you want to make sure that that's disabled.

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Now to be safe you can also remove the updates.

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As usual I recommend that you do backups and you should read by googling the Kaybee numbers.

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Each of these I'm going to show you here.

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These are all the ones that have been suggested as relating to sending telemetry information some have

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superseded the other ones.

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But Google these and find out what they are.

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But if you run this command you'll find that this will actually disable you to run ACMD

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and you set in and that will actually uninstall the day.

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And these are all the updates that you want to remove if you want to be doubly sure.

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You can block the windows 10 upgrade notifications if you see this link here and follow the quick instructions.

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That is the official windows page for how to disable the windows 10 notifications.

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If you find you need a little bit more help.

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And check out this Web site here.

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This will give you some pictures as well for how to disable it.

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A third option if that's not enough and you find still annoying when there's 10 things popping up is

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this free tool that can remove and disable the get Windows 10 notification area icon on Windows 7 and

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Windows.

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Is this GW you x control panel.

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Download and install I bought hopefully and I've heard good things.

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If you follow the instructions on here and make the relevant changes then you should be good and you

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should get no more Windows 10 notifications.