They developed this tool so you can easily disable all services, programs and system settings known to collect data and telemetry. When all changes have been applied, you should reboot the PC. This program should be used only on Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10 (32\64-bit).
O&O ShutUp10 means you have full control over which comfort functions under Windows 10 you wish to use, and you decide when the passing on of your data goes too far. Using a very simple interface, you decide how Windows 10 should respect your privacy by deciding which unwanted functions should be deactivated.
The by default highly questionable set options concerning privacy and data protection in Windows 10 brought me to the idea for the development of this little program. Microsoft generously enables everybody to change the concerning settings, but hides them in countless menus, where a normal user does not want to search for!
Privacy Repairer is a breeze to use. No need to worry about complex and overblown interfaces, as each option comes with just a simple toggle button! And if you are ever lost, detailed information about every option is readily available. And remember, all changes you make are always safely reversible! Privacy Repairer is a tool for Windows 10 designed to protect your privacy.
It comes with almost 60 options engineered to carefully modify your system in a way most beneficial for your privacy. Privacy Repairer is a breeze to use. No need to worry about complex and overblown interfaces, as each option comes with just a simple toggle button! And if you are ever lost, detailed information about every option is readily available. And remember, all changes you make are always safely reversible!
The Windows 10 default privacy settings leave a lot to be desired when it comes to protecting you and your private information. Whenever I set up a new computer or update a current setup for my family or job, I always carefully go through the privacy settings for each install, making sure to lock it down to make it as private as possible.
Even though Windows 10 did bring many of the features users expected of it, such as a Start Menu and revamped icons, it also came with several issues and a very important one is related to its tracking behavior. Destroy Windows 10 Spying is one of the many applications that aims to solve this problem. Features.
Spybot Anti-Beacon is a standalone tool which was designed to block and stop the various tracking (telemetry) issues present in Windows 10. It has since been modified to block similar tracking functionality in Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 operating systems.
Unfortunately, due to the nature of the tool I get a lot of false positives. I think I could in fact make the code less suspicious but that would make Blackbird much less effective and I simply refuse to build an inferior product.
To be perfectly clear, I am admittedly forced to use some very shady methods in order to effectively disable everything, but I would never knowingly do anything malicious to my users. The software never does anything that is not clearly specified and leaves no files behind.
>LAN / VPN / misc. network issues:
>Blackbird disables 2 services, SSDP Discovery & UPnP Device Host, which are required to >run Network Discovery on your PC. Press the L key in the main menu to fix any LAN >connectivity issues and reboot your PC when prompted. After applying the fix, you can >set Network Discovery back on in your network settings.
I had this once a few years ago. It was caused by my changing over antivirus software. The original one had not uninstalled properly, even though it looked as though it had. So the new one checked the old one out, then the old one would sense the new one was active and check it out. The new one would check the old one had become active and check it out, and so on.
The solution was to do a search for a tool to completely uninstall all traces of the original software (made by the makers of the antivirus themselves). Then my system was fine again. Could this be your problem? Only the symptoms you describe are identical.
It depends on what the free product is. If the free product has anything to do with the wicked Bill Gates the one who wants to depopulate the world, then of course they plan to spy on us and record as much as they can about us. Eventually all that date will be transferred to the Mark of the Beast system.
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its been proven , even if you disable all those settings, still the win10 spies.
microsoft are not that stupid, they knew those tools would come out.
and recently, they bought several linux control chairs. means they put in spying in several linux versions too.
for smartphones, cyagenmod was stopped.
all smart-devices spies,
The problem is, most of these type utilities stop getting updates. Microsoft on the other hand does not stop adding more and more spying. These utilities disable some stuff but not everything in Windows 11.
Since Windows 10's release and the privacy controversy that followed, many "anti-spying" apps have sprung up. They promise to keep Windows 10 from tracking you--but often, they can cause more problems than they solve.
We recommend changing privacy settings using the normal options in Windows. These invasive tools can break things and cause a variety of system problems you may not notice until later, with no indication that the problem was caused by the tool.
They promise to quickly stop Windows 10 from "spying" and communicating with Microsoft in just a few clicks. They do this in some good ways--like changing basic settings--and some bad ways--like blocking web addresses in the hosts file and flat-out deleting services that are part of the Windows operating system.
For example, if you downloaded the "windows-10-tracking" PowerShell script from GitHub and ran it, the tool will block various Skype domains in your hosts file, preventing Skype from working properly. It can also delete various services from Windows rather than simply disabling them. The download page warns you should use this script at your own risk and that "We have not personally tested every HOSTS entry. Some of them may cause applications and services to stop working." Running a not-properly-tested script that takes a shotgun approach to your operating system sounds like a bad idea (and it is).
Download DWS and you'll see it will "disable Windows Update" so you will "not receive updates of new spyware". The tool also notes that the changes made are "irreversible", so there's no easy way to undo them without just reinstalling Windows. That means you won't get important security updates and stability fixes to problems like the recent webcam breakage, either.
We're not here to slam any individual tool. Some of them may work alright, but most of the tools and scripts we've seen look harmful and dangerous, albeit to different degrees. Over the past year, we've regularly seen stories of people who ran these tools and only later discovered something wasn't working properly, forcing them to reset or reinstall Windows 10 to fully repair the damage (or, at best, go hunting for the setting that triggered the problem--a huge hassle in and of itself).
Rather than relying on some tool to change the settings for you, learn what Windows 10's privacy settings do and change them yourself. They're a bit scattered throughout Windows 10, but they're not hard to find if you have a good guide. Run through our list of the various options that "phone home" on Windows 10 and you can disable them in a safe way.
Some settings aren't available for a good reason--you shouldn't disable Windows Update entirely, for example as security updates are crucial. You can't fully disable telemetry on Home or Professional editions of Windows 10. Many tools set the "Allow Telemetry" value to "0" and say they've disabled telemetry. That only works on the Enterprise and Education editions of Windows 10. A value of "0" just chooses the Basic telemetry level on Home and Professional editions. In other words, it's complete snake oil.
In other cases, Microsoft can easily work around these changes. Windows 10 actually ignores the hosts file for certain domains, which means attempting to block domains in your hosts file won't actually do anything. So once again, these anti-spying tools and scripts aren't living up to their promises.
Instead of using one of these tools, do your research on what these controversial Windows 10 features actually do. That way, you can turn off the stuff that actually matters to you. Microsoft uses the telemetry features to identify bugs and decide which features it should work on, not to steal your personal documents. So you may find these features are not as sinister as they might seem.
If you have a major philosophical problem with the fact that Windows 10 doesn't let you avoid non-security updates or disable telemetry, don't try to fix it. Instead, just switch to another operating system, like Linux or Windows 7 (or Windows 10 Enterprise, if your organization is eligible).
Windows 10 users can modify the operating system's privacy settings manually, for instance by disabling express setup during installation or upgrade, or by exploring the Privacy section of the new Settings application.
Please note that you need to run all programs with elevated privileges as the majority of tweaks are not applied otherwise. You do that with a right-click on the program executable and the selection of "run as administrator" from the options.
We suggest you focus on apps that are updated regularly. Programs that have been updated some years ago may still work for the most part, but they may lack certain functionality that tweaks newer versions of Windows 10 and some tweaks may not work at all anymore.
Debotnet is an open source program for Windows 10 that administrators may run right away. The latest version of the program displays categories in a sidebar, the tweaks and options associated with the category in the middle, and descriptions and actions on the right.
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