Tag Archives: Telemetry

Microsoft packs Store apps with telemetry wrapper

Posted on 2024-04-22 by guenni

[German]The move from Microsoft, which has just been uncovered and is causing anger among developers. Their Store team has started to secretly repackage Store apps. The apps are provided with an executable .NET wrapper that adds telemetry and other code … Continue reading →

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Disabled Windows 10 Experiments block Known Issue Rollback (KIR) fixes

Posted on 2021-04-30 by guenni

[German]Users who block various telemetry features, including the Windows Experiments feature in Windows 10, for privacy reasons will lose additional options offered by the operating system. It has just become known that a disabled Windows Experiments feature will also block … Continue reading →

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How to find weak passwords in Active Directory and eliminate them with PowerShell

[Sponsored Post]Weak or compromised passwords are a known gateway for attackers. If you are able to identify which users in Active Directory (AD) are threatened by this, then PowerShell can help to remedy it. However, PowerShell scripts cannot eliminate basic AD deficits, other tools are needed for this. More ...

Windows 10 20H2: Stop Telemetry with O&O Shutup10 and directly

Posted on 2021-04-01 by guenni

[German]Many users swear by O&O Shutup10 to turn off telemetry data collection under Windows 10. However, there was a problem with telemetry data collection being automatically reactivated under Windows 10 when it was switched off with O&O Shutup10. Now there … Continue reading →

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Windows 10 20H2 activates telemetry despite O&O Shutup 10 settings

Posted on 2021-03-18 by guenni

[German]Many users trust on O&O Shutup to turn off telemetry data collection under Windows 10. I've now received a user report that a disabled telemetry data collection is automatically reactivated under Windows 10 – despite O&O Shutup 10 settings. Other … Continue reading →

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Windows 10 Insider Preview: Changes in Telemetry Options

Posted on 2020-03-08 by guenni

[German]In future Windows 10 versions, Microsoft intends to 'rename' the options for telemetry data acquisition – but the content will not change. This is stated in the announcement for the last Insider Preview. Advertising

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Windows 10 V1909 Enterprise: Telemetry can be deactivated

Posted on 2020-02-03 by guenni

[German]The transfer of telemetry data to Microsoft can be completely disabled in Windows 10 Enterprise November 2019 Update (Version 1909). This is the result of an analysis by the Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision. Advertising

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Windows 7 Update KB4507456 (security only) with Telemetry

Posted on 2019-07-11 by guenni

[German]It's an unpleasant surprise administrators of Windows 7 systems. July 9, 2019 patchday from Microsoft comes also with security-only Update KB4507456, but this package has telemetry on board.  Advertising

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HP installs secretly HP Touchpoint Analytics Client telemetry client

Posted on 2017-11-27 by guenni

[German]Here is an Information and Question addressing owners of HP Windows devices. It seems that Hewlett Packard silently installs a telemetry client on Windows computers. Here are a few details. Advertising

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Windows 7/8.1: Update KB2952664 / KB2976978 re-released

Posted on 2017-02-11 by guenni

[German]Microsoft has re-released optional update KB2952664 for Windows 7 SP1 and optional update KB2976978 for Windows 8.1. Both are "snooping" updates for telemetry. Advertising

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