Windows 10 telemetry secrets: Where, when, and why Microsoft collectsyour data

By Ed Bott for The Ed Bott Report | February 23, 2016

"How does Windows 10 telemetry really work? It's not a state secret.
I've gone through the documentation and sorted out the where, when, and
why. If you're concerned about private documents accidentally leaving
your network, you might want to turn the telemetry setting down."

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*An EXCELLENT article*! :-)

http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows...metry-secrets/

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On 8/10/16 00:10, David B wrote:
"How does Windows 10 telemetry really work? It's not a state secret.
I've gone through the documentation and sorted out the where, when, and
why. If you're concerned about private documents accidentally leaving
your network, you might want to turn the telemetry setting down."

Just tell us how to shut it down!

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On 10/7/2016 at 2:42 PM, Mr. Man-wai Chang's prodigious digits fired off:
On 8/10/16 00:10, David B wrote:
"How does Windows 10 telemetry really work? It's not a state secret.
I've gone through the documentation and sorted out the where, when, and
why. If you're concerned about private documents accidentally leaving
your network, you might want to turn the telemetry setting down."

Just tell us how to shut it down!


Disconnect the Ethernet cable from your computer.

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On Sat, 8 Oct 2016 02:42:24 +0800, "Mr. Man-wai Chang"
wrote in

On 8/10/16 00:10, David B wrote:
"How does Windows 10 telemetry really work? It's not a state secret.
I've gone through the documentation and sorted out the where, when, and
why. If you're concerned about private documents accidentally leaving
your network, you might want to turn the telemetry setting down."

Just tell us how to shut it down!

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
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On Fri, 7 Oct 2016 22:36:26 -0400, Ed Mullen wrote:

Disconnect the Ethernet cable from your computer.

Right. Blow up the car to stop it.

JJ wrote:
On Fri, 7 Oct 2016 22:36:26 -0400, Ed Mullen wrote:
Disconnect the Ethernet cable from your computer.

Right. Blow up the car to stop it.

Nevertheless, when you want to get serious
work done on a Win10 machine, you pull the
Ethernet cable. That's standard operating
procedure. And that has to do with control
over Windows Update, not telemetry.

Paul

On 2016-10-08, Paul wrote:
Nevertheless, when you want to get serious
work done on a Win10 machine, you pull the
Ethernet cable. That's standard operating
procedure. And that has to do with control
over Windows Update, not telemetry.

Can't you do that by just setting your ethernet up as a metered connection?
(It's not in the GUI for wired connections but can be done in the registry.)

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Roger Blake wrote:
On 2016-10-08, Paul wrote:
Nevertheless, when you want to get serious
work done on a Win10 machine, you pull the
Ethernet cable. That's standard operating
procedure. And that has to do with control
over Windows Update, not telemetry.

Can't you do that by just setting your ethernet up as a metered connection?
(It's not in the GUI for wired connections but can be done in the registry.)


I haven't tested it, but the Metered Connection hack
for NICs, has apparently been removed in the latest Insider
Edition. So the writing is on the wall now.

Right now, all file sharing is busted for me in
14942, so my interest in evaluating the Insider
Edition, is pretty well at an end. On 14936, file
sharing was busted in the "push from Win10" direction,
but still worked in the "pull from Win10" direction.
Now, my other machines tell me that the workgroup=WORKGROUP
domain is not mine any more. Like Win10 became the
network browser, and is dictating a new set of rules.
But like I say, I'm not interested in hammering it,
as they would only issue another OS upgrade and
blow away my changes, change the "brokenness factor"
and so on. This is what you pay captive QA idiots
to put up with.

I still have a Release install to play with,
but not much motivation left...

Paul

On Sat, 08 Oct 2016 14:03:20 -0400, Paul wrote:

Nevertheless, when you want to get serious
work done on a Win10 machine, you pull the
Ethernet cable. That's standard operating
procedure. And that has to do with control
over Windows Update, not telemetry.

Paul

In the middle of an online meeting?

On 2016-10-09, Paul wrote:
I haven't tested it, but the Metered Connection hack
for NICs, has apparently been removed in the latest Insider
Edition. So the writing is on the wall now.

Well that sucks. I don't know why Microsoft is so adamant about
removing control of updates from the end user. Though if that
control is available in Enterprise edition, their end game is
likely to push as many businesses as possible in that direction
since stability is a real issue in a business environment.

For home users I guess as long as they allow metered connections on
wireless connections you could go that way. Wireless USB adapters
and routers are cheap.

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JJ wrote:
On Sat, 08 Oct 2016 14:03:20 -0400, Paul wrote:
Nevertheless, when you want to get serious
work done on a Win10 machine, you pull the
Ethernet cable. That's standard operating
procedure. And that has to do with control
over Windows Update, not telemetry.

Paul

In the middle of an online meeting?

Just tell them you're on Win10 and they'll understand.
You can hop into the conference on a POTS line.

Paul