General Discussions

[kingfish]

The Privacy dashboard on Microsoft's website lists recent activity, e.g. visited sites or started applications, even if Activity History is disabled on a Windows 10 device.

Recent versions of Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system support a feature called Activity History that is keeping track of some of the things that users are doing on the device so that they may "jump back".

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[qwixt]

Which is why I manually disabled several items in the Task Scheduler myself:

"\Microsoft\Windows\Customer Experience Improvement Program": Disable both tasks

"\Microsoft\Windows\DiskDiagnostic": Both tasks disabled

"\Microsoft\Windows\Feedback\Siuf": Both tasks disabled

While I am fine doing this, and had no issues, I don't guarantee that it works for everyone. I just hated the thought of running any data collection processes.

[kingfish]

Windows 10 Collects Activity Data Even When Tracking Is Disabled, But You Can Block It [Updated]

[pokester]

O&O Shutup10 does a great job of turning all the data collection off.

[qwixt]

I tried that after the first major win 10 update, and it had some side effects for me. I might have been a little overzealous with some of my other changes like trying to disable cortana.

[pokester]

If you look you can choose only the suggested not all options. I choose only those minimal suggest. You can also easily undo. The first major Win 10 update is years ago too, I never used O&O myself till 1803 so maybe it's better now as well at not being too aggressive.