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Some telemetry can be disabled through settings. This can be done manually. There are also 3rd-party utilities such as Windows 10 Privacy Fixer and O&O ShutUp10 which fix these settings in Windows 10.== Disable Telemetry in Windows 7 ==Disable the Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP).#Start "Control Panel" > "Action Center" > "Change Action Center settings".#Click "Customer Experience Improvement Program settings".#Select "No, I don't want to participate in the program" then click "Save changes".#Start > "Control Panel" > "Administrative Tools" > "Task Scheduler".#In the Task Scheduler (Local) pane of the Task Scheduler dialog box, expand "Task Scheduler Library" > "Microsoft" > "Windows" and open the "Application Experience" folder.#Disable the "AITAgent" and "ProgramDataUpdater" tasks.#In "Task Scheduler Library" > "Microsoft" > "Windows", open the "Customer Experience Improvement Program" folder.#Disable the "Consolidator", "KernelCeipTask", and "UsbCeip" tasks.There are some telemetry services that cannot be disabled through settings.See the [[List of Windows Updates to Remove]]Services that need to be stoppedRun cmd.exe as Administrator sc stop DiagTrack sc stop dmwappushservice sc delete DiagTrack sc delete dmwappushservice echo "" > C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Diagnosis\ETLLogs\AutoLogger\AutoLogger-Diagtrack-Listener.etl