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I don't have Diagtrak file anywhere in my W10 Pro system.
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I don't have Diagtrak file anywhere in my W10 Pro system.
Alaric
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Windows 7 has files that are "super hidden". They don't show up even if you set the folder option to "show hidden files". It still doesn't show everything.
Fourth paragraph of the linked article
It's the slippery slope argument.
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"On a Windows 10 PC, telemetry data is stored in encrypted files in the hidden %ProgramData%\Microsoft\Diagnosis folder. The files and folders in this location are not accessible to normal users and have permissions that make it difficult to snoop in them.
Even if you could look into the contents of those files, there's nothing to see, because the data files are encrypted locally."
Even if you could look into the contents of those files, there's nothing to see, because the data files are encrypted locally."
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But this article talks about changing settings:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-telemetry-secrets/
If I don't have the Digitrak file in my services then it's academic. No?
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The article says its hidden, i don't see it as well on my system but might be there regardless. Either way, Spybot Anti-Beacon SHOULD take care of it, or part of it no ?
Just for comparison my diagnosis folder size is 64mb
and out of curiosity had zero hits on Digitrak windows search on Google.
"just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get me"
Just for comparison my diagnosis folder size is 64mb
and out of curiosity had zero hits on Digitrak windows search on Google."just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get me"
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Just type %ProgramData%\Microsoft\Diagnosis in an explorer/run menu and you will for sure see the directory. According to what I have seen and read, Windoze 10 Pro is set to "Full" by default. I do not believe this setting can be changed for the professional version, unless it's coming from a GPO.
It has to be there. %ProgramData% is not visibile in general, similar to the %AppData% folder in the user profile.
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You know I have Anti-Beacon installed and set up and completely forgot about it.
Perhaps that's why it's taken care of. The Spybot Anti-Beacon was a good tip
that someone here posted.
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That folder is there but I can't access it.
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Misunderstand, Digitrak is not there, the Diagnostics folder is there, gave me the admin warning BUT i can access it at will now. In fact is has grown by 0.2mb in the past ~15m...
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this >>>>> http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-telemetry-secrets/ tells you how to turn it down to basic.
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It's one of the 1st things I do when I re-install W10 along with the privacy settings and stopping auto updates.
So either Anti-Beacon doesn't stop it from being broadcast, or it does but Windows still collects all the info and backups/saves it to the disc for future use.
So either Anti-Beacon doesn't stop it from being broadcast, or it does but Windows still collects all the info and backups/saves it to the disc for future use.
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The article says its hidden, i don't see it as well on my system but might be there regardless. Either way, Spybot Anti-Beacon SHOULD take care of it, or part of it no ?
Just for comparison my diagnosis folder size is 64mb
"just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get me"
my diagnosis folder size is 32 MB
You mean "DiagTrack" or Connected Experience bleh bleh service. I checked in the services panel, nada, no existo.
However, if you do some registry spelunking, it certainly is there and it is set "Automatic" (Start type 2). Not surprising.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\DiagTrack
I'm curious about the telemetry Windoze Pro setting, I recall being able to set this in the past, but it would just revert itself back to Full. Pretty quickly if I remember correctly, but all this flack MS has been taking, maybe an update now allows you to make this change. +1 for the consumer.
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DiagTrak my bad, was almost dead asleep when i posted that 
http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-disable-telemetry-and-data-collection-in-windows-10/
"Update: Windows 10 version 1511 changed the Diagnostics Tracking Service to Connected User Experiences and Telemetry service. You will need to disable
Connected User Experiences and Telemetry
dmwappushsvc"
All off on my system, either me or the Anti-Beacon (honestly cant remember).
http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-disable-telemetry-and-data-collection-in-windows-10/
"Update: Windows 10 version 1511 changed the Diagnostics Tracking Service to Connected User Experiences and Telemetry service. You will need to disable
Connected User Experiences and Telemetry
dmwappushsvc"
All off on my system, either me or the Anti-Beacon (honestly cant remember).
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My apologies , folks. I wasn't paying attention and posted a no-no. Didn't mean to be that vulgar.
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Possible update/replacement for Spybot Anti-Beacon :
https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
Update : Both Internet and Windows seem "snappier/faster" after using this, tell me what you think
https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
Update : Both Internet and Windows seem "snappier/faster" after using this, tell me what you think
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Really, I always have problems with windows 10=\ Do not know why, but everything goes not like it must be!
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