Disable Telemetry & Data Collection in Windows 10 Education (Enterprise)?

[malG]

My wife is a teacher so she can order Windows 10 Education to use at home for a nominal price. I understand it provides all Windows 10 Enterprise features so I can open up the group policy editor (gpedit.msc) and navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Data Collection. Enable the policy, then set the value to "0 - Off."

Is that enough to stop the spyware in it tracks? or do I still need to disable the dozens of options in the Settings app >Privacy?

 

[TeknoBug]

I don't think Enterprise has telemetry enabled.

 

[malG]

I don't think Enterprise has telemetry enabled.

I doubt it...otherwise Windows 10 Education will be highly sought after i.e. the gold standard :awe:

Screenshot of what I'm taking about: http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2015/08/windows-10-allow-telemetry.png

 

[Ketchup]

I like what you found MalG. Here is another one I stumbled upon:

http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-disable-telemetry-and-data-collection-in-windows-10/

 

[DustinBrowder]

My wife is a teacher so she can order Windows 10 Education to use at home for a nominal price. I understand it provides all Windows 10 Enterprise features so I can open up the group policy editor (gpedit.msc) and navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Data Collection. Enable the policy, then set the value to "0 - Off."

Is that enough to stop the spyware in it tracks? or do I still need to disable the dozens of options in the Settings app >Privacy?

No nearly enough. The biggest violators are the Microsoft apps themselves, but any apps basically. They are all designed to spy on you and track you and record all sort of stuff you do on your computer.

The basic stuff you can do is go to the setting menu, go into privacy options and turn OFF ALL of the tracking and spying and sharing.

The next thing you should do is REMOVE ALL apps.

Finally you need to edit your HOSTS file to prevent Microsoft from accessing its servers.

You can find links to do all these things in my signature and following my thread.

 

[JEDIYoda]

No nearly enough. The biggest violators are the Microsoft apps themselves, but any apps basically. They are all designed to spy on you and track you and record all sort of stuff you do on your computer.

The basic stuff you can do is go to the setting menu, go into privacy options and turn OFF ALL of the tracking and spying and sharing.

The next thing you should do is REMOVE ALL apps.

Finally you need to edit your HOSTS file to prevent Microsoft from accessing its servers.

You can find links to do all these things in my signature and following my thread.

hahahahaa...coming from the guy that signed up on this forum simply to scream "SPYWARE" as much as you possibly can. Would you PLEASE stop with the extremes, such as what I bolded. There is zero evidence or proof of anything near that level going on -- I stole this from SparkyJJo because it was so appropriate!!

 

[SparkyJJO]

hahahahaa...coming from he guy that signed up on this forum simply to scream "SPYWARE" as much as you possibly can. Would you PLEASE stop with the extremes, such as what I bolded. There is zero evidence or proof of anything near that level going on

Ahem, nice copy/paste of what I wrote in another thread, considering it also doesn't make a whole lot of sense since you didn't bold a darn thing

 

[malG]

The biggest violators are the Microsoft apps themselves, but any apps basically. They are all designed to spy on you and track you and record all sort of stuff you do on your computer.

In that case there's no reason for government agencies and big business to upgrade. In other words, Windows 10 Enterprise will be a failure.

 

[Ketchup]

My wife is a teacher so she can order Windows 10 Education to use at home for a nominal price. I understand it provides all Windows 10 Enterprise features so I can open up the group policy editor (gpedit.msc) and navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Data Collection. Enable the policy, then set the value to "0 - Off."

Is that enough to stop the spyware in it tracks? or do I still need to disable the dozens of options in the Settings app >Privacy?

Not to get too off topic, but I am glad my desktop has win 7 professional, so that I can have access to this when I upgrade. I put the group policy editor on Wind 10 Home and there is no such option available (it is debatable if doing such a thing negates your warranty, so don't take that as a suggestion). I downloaded a 90-day eval. of 10 Enterprise, and noticed that these options come totally unconfigured. So I am left wondering if this really doesn't do what I think it does, or of it is just on all the time with other versions, having no way to turn it off within the OS.

An interesting article if you haven't seen it yet:
http://arstechnica.com/information-...ndows-10-just-cant-stop-talking-to-microsoft/