Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Brooke on April 04, 2018, 03:13:08 PM
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Just came across this handy free tool to manage and turn off Windows 10 spying in an easy way. I didn't know about it previously, but was just recommended by a computer-expert friend of mine. Thought I'd mention it to they AH community in case of interest.
https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
It's from a Germany company. (I'm often wary of using software unless it is from a US company, a Japanese company, a German company, etc.)
Previously, I've been doing it manually, but I'm going to switch to using this on the new computer I'm just setting up for Aces High.
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Hmm. I should have checked here more before posting. There are already some posts from from others a while back on ShutUp10.
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Hmm. I should have checked here more before posting. There are already some posts from from others a while back on ShutUp10.
These things are good to be reminded about. I don't recall having read about it before. :aok
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Earliest appearance:
http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,375015.msg4995345.html#msg4995345
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Earliest appearance:
http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,375015.msg4995345.html#msg4995345
Now that you mentioned it, I remember having seen your post. However, since September 2015 there's been quite a many version updates for 10 so it's good to know the tools still work.
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These things are good to be reminded about. I don't recall having read about it before. :aok
This.
Does it work?
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This.
Does it work?
Seems to work well. Just tried it yesterday on a co-worker's Windows 10 machine. It found lots of spy stuff still enabled on his machine, so we used ShutUp10 to turn it all off. Everything seems still to work fine.
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O&O have been keeping it updated. You should remember to revert to original settings before updating, to avoid stability issues in Windows 10. Should you run into those issues you may have to reinstall W10, or reset it. So, remain vigilant.
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Are you guys afraid of bloatware or the collection of information?
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I'm mostly concerned about background activity causing anomalies during gaming.
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Are you guys afraid of bloatware or the collection of information?
My concerns are equal for both, truth be told.
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Are you guys afraid of bloatware or the collection of information?
I don't want companies invading my privacy, spying on everything click and type, and storing it for their use.
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It's already worse than you think. Make sure to read the updated Microsoft terms of service agreement. Any Service they provide may be denied to any user they deem to be involved in things like criminal activity. Windows is a service now. They are monitoring blogs, emails, Word documents, Windows usage, and probably more than we know. If another freedom based operating system came along I would jump on it.
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Just came across this handy free tool to manage and turn off Windows 10 spying in an easy way. I didn't know about it previously, but was just recommended by a computer-expert friend of mine. Thought I'd mention it to they AH community in case of interest.
https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
It's from a Germany company. (I'm often wary of using software unless it is from a US company, a Japanese company, a German company, etc.)
Previously, I've been doing it manually, but I'm going to switch to using this on the new computer I'm just setting up for Aces High.
Putting perfume on a pig IMHO...
Coogan
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It's not just Windows 10 doing data collections. All Microsoft applications are doing it as well.
On another systems related site we decided to count the data points Windows 10 collects and came up with 3,582 data points being monitored and collected. It's not just the clicks, but how long it takes between clicks, the color of what you are clicking on, the wording and font used, how long between sessions, how long are the sessions, how much activity during the sessions, what applications are being used...and so on.
You are not doing anything on a Windows 10 computer without Microsoft being intimately aware of it.
There is not a tool on the planet capable of blocking it all.
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It's not just Windows 10 doing data collections. All Microsoft applications are doing it as well.
On another systems related site we decided to count the data points Windows 10 collects and came up with 3,582 data points being monitored and collected. It's not just the clicks, but how long it takes between clicks, the color of what you are clicking on, the wording and font used, how long between sessions, how long are the sessions, how much activity during the sessions, what applications are being used...and so on.
You are not doing anything on a Windows 10 computer without Microsoft being intimately aware of it.
There is not a tool on the planet capable of blocking it all.
This is friggin’ distressing. I’m wth Challenge. If a freedom-based competitor comes out I’m jumping. I’d use Linux but AH won’t run on it well enough. In fact, AH is the only reason I use Windoze at all.
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This is friggin’ distressing. I’m wth Challenge. If a freedom-based competitor comes out I’m jumping. I’d use Linux but AH won’t run on it well enough. In fact, AH is the only reason I use Windoze at all.
I feel similarly. I was going to try Linux with Wine to see if I could get it to work, but didn't get around to it yet.
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You are not doing anything on a Windows 10 computer without Microsoft being intimately aware of it.
There is not a tool on the planet capable of blocking it all.
A good firewall can :devil
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This is friggin’ distressing. I’m wth Challenge. If a freedom-based competitor comes out I’m jumping. I’d use Linux but AH won’t run on it well enough. In fact, AH is the only reason I use Windoze at all.
I feel similarly. I was going to try Linux with Wine to see if I could get it to work, but didn't get around to it yet.
Why not use Windows 7 for AH and Linux for other stuff? Dual boot for example or even 2 computers.
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A good firewall can :devil
True. I should have specified there are no software tools which will stop the data collection.
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Why not use Windows 7 for AH and Linux for other stuff? Dual boot for example or even 2 computers.
I'm tempted by Linux, but I use things other than LibreOffice, Thunderbird, etc. So for now, I'd need Linux with Wine, but that might be buggy to deal with and take time. Still, I'm tempted.
I do use Win 7 for AH currently. But if I got a new computer, I probably wouldn't go out of my way to get Win 7.