WEBVTT 00:00.770 --> 00:07.720 Windows 7 and Windows A has definitely been shown to be better than Windows 10 when it comes to privacy. 00:07.850 --> 00:14.990 But those Windows 7 and 8 always had a service called the customer experience improvement program or 00:14.990 --> 00:19.550 seat and is there to help Microsoft decide what's working and what isn't. 00:19.670 --> 00:23.170 So they can design improvements and determine how to fix the problems. 00:23.180 --> 00:29.570 So in order to do this it sends out telemetry data to Microsoft about performance performance of your 00:29.570 --> 00:32.820 operating system and so Microsoft applications. 00:32.960 --> 00:35.180 So it is a privacy concern. 00:35.180 --> 00:40.490 It's not clear what all that data is and definitely some of that data is undesirable. 00:40.490 --> 00:46.910 There's also recently been controversy that dates to Windows 7 and 8 will be enabling the same sort 00:46.910 --> 00:49.020 of tracking features is Windows 10. 00:49.220 --> 00:51.520 But that hasn't really been shown to be true. 00:51.650 --> 00:58.310 But what these updates have done is change the kind of data that is being collected by this customer 00:58.310 --> 01:01.110 experience improvement program or the CPP. 01:01.310 --> 01:08.000 But according to Microsoft if you have installed these new days which most of them are supposed to be 01:08.000 --> 01:15.350 optional then if you have seen disabled then the related window telemetry will not be sent to Microsoft 01:15.470 --> 01:17.840 and you can choose to trust that statement or not. 01:17.930 --> 01:24.680 But my advice is STILL do not install option days unless you've checked first what they are and made 01:24.680 --> 01:25.940 sure that you need them. 01:25.940 --> 01:31.890 And also we want to turn off the seat so Windows 7 and Windows 8 is pretty much the same. 01:31.910 --> 01:39.260 So if in Windows 7 we go down to the Start Menu and type experience and the only difference is in Windows 01:39.260 --> 01:45.500 8 you need to go to the Metro start screen and type experience and there you can see change customer 01:45.500 --> 01:47.740 experience improvement program settings. 01:47.780 --> 01:55.840 Just click on that and change this to now as it already is set to and save your changes and then you'll 01:55.850 --> 02:00.400 no longer be sending the telemetry information to Microsoft. 02:00.410 --> 02:09.140 Now there is also all the programs that send out this telemetry information so Microsoft Security Essentials 02:09.440 --> 02:10.760 is one of them. 02:10.760 --> 02:18.260 That is the old version of the Microsoft antivirus or malware software which on my machine has been 02:18.260 --> 02:20.020 superseded by defender. 02:20.150 --> 02:25.160 But if you have Microsoft Security Essentials you need to go into the Help section and go into the customer 02:25.160 --> 02:28.730 experience improvement and you need to disable that. 02:28.790 --> 02:31.510 Next is Windows Media Player. 02:31.730 --> 02:39.170 So if you start your windows media player and you can see here that this hasn't been run before and 02:39.170 --> 02:47.020 if you go in recommended settings then it will be set to sending out telemetry information. 02:47.240 --> 02:54.200 If you click on customer settings you can see here that there's actually quite a lot of settings to 02:54.200 --> 02:56.360 stop it from speaking out to the Internet. 02:56.510 --> 03:01.390 But of course this is going to disable functionality display media information from the internet in 03:02.780 --> 03:09.740 the music files by retrieving media information from Internet download usage rights automatically when 03:09.740 --> 03:11.500 I play or sync a file. 03:11.510 --> 03:19.190 So you don't really want any of these things if privacy is of concern but actually for even click next 03:19.820 --> 03:22.860 do you really want to be using Windows Media Player. 03:22.970 --> 03:28.000 I mean it is not the best choice if privacy is something you care about. 03:28.220 --> 03:33.350 I would recommend the elsi install and use this instead. 03:33.350 --> 03:39.280 This is a much better option and it's a much better application and it's free. 03:39.680 --> 03:40.900 If you create next. 03:40.920 --> 03:44.470 So then we need to go to Tools Options and the privacy tab. 03:44.480 --> 04:00.180 So if I click alt file tools options privacy tab uncheck these and this is the one here around the customer 04:00.180 --> 04:03.710 experience improvement program so you need to make sure that is disabled 04:06.940 --> 04:09.850 close this. 04:09.870 --> 04:13.020 Now some of you may still be using the Windows Live Messenger. 04:13.020 --> 04:14.780 I don't have that on here. 04:14.910 --> 04:20.130 That also sends out information and I don't know what sort of information that sends out about your 04:20.460 --> 04:25.920 chat sessions but you definitely want to enable that so that's within options and there's a privacy 04:25.920 --> 04:32.100 setting in there so you need to check allow Microsoft to collect data about your computer and how you 04:32.100 --> 04:33.850 use Windows Live. 04:34.020 --> 04:41.710 Well so office office sends telemetry information anything from Office 2010 desktop and or both. 04:42.020 --> 04:44.650 And I don't have a copy of that on here either. 04:44.670 --> 04:53.730 But if you go to phials options trust center and click the button marked Trust Center settings privacy 04:53.730 --> 05:00.120 options and check the box marked sign up for the customer experience improvement program or depending 05:00.120 --> 05:01.960 on what version you've got. 05:02.100 --> 05:08.640 You may see send as information about your use and performance of office software to help improve your 05:08.640 --> 05:09.990 Microsoft experience. 05:09.990 --> 05:12.360 And you want to make sure that that's disabled. 05:12.360 --> 05:16.690 Now to be safe you can also remove the updates. 05:16.740 --> 05:23.970 As usual I recommend that you do backups and you should read by googling the Kaybee numbers. 05:23.970 --> 05:26.680 Each of these I'm going to show you here. 05:30.470 --> 05:36.710 These are all the ones that have been suggested as relating to sending telemetry information some have 05:36.710 --> 05:38.530 superseded the other ones. 05:38.560 --> 05:41.180 But Google these and find out what they are. 05:41.390 --> 05:52.160 But if you run this command you'll find that this will actually disable you to run ACMD 05:55.450 --> 06:02.470 and you set in and that will actually uninstall the day. 06:04.670 --> 06:11.290 And these are all the updates that you want to remove if you want to be doubly sure. 06:12.940 --> 06:21.220 You can block the windows 10 upgrade notifications if you see this link here and follow the quick instructions. 06:21.220 --> 06:26.980 That is the official windows page for how to disable the windows 10 notifications. 06:26.980 --> 06:29.130 If you find you need a little bit more help. 06:29.320 --> 06:30.960 And check out this Web site here. 06:30.980 --> 06:35.560 This will give you some pictures as well for how to disable it. 06:35.560 --> 06:41.350 A third option if that's not enough and you find still annoying when there's 10 things popping up is 06:41.350 --> 06:49.540 this free tool that can remove and disable the get Windows 10 notification area icon on Windows 7 and 06:49.540 --> 06:50.160 Windows. 06:50.230 --> 06:53.320 Is this GW you x control panel. 06:53.590 --> 06:59.840 Download and install I bought hopefully and I've heard good things. 07:00.070 --> 07:07.330 If you follow the instructions on here and make the relevant changes then you should be good and you 07:07.330 --> 07:10.460 should get no more Windows 10 notifications.