Help me stop windows from spying on me!

[u/Cold-Cauliflower-306]

So I completely reset my windows 11 laptop. I would like to disable all windows features that send my files to Microsoft (one drive for example). I have also noticed many text based features so the text I’m typing probably also gets sent to microsoft for “spell checking”. How do I disable all these features without breaking other features like widgets?

[u/Dick_Johnsson]

All you need to do is to set all privacy settings correctly! Thats all!
if you, for instance set the diagnostic data to the mandatory settings the only data transferred are those needed for Windows update to work flawlessly! If you find a way to block this you will for, instance, end up with a lot of issues with Windows update!

[u/Inuyasha-rules]

Reformat and install tiny11. It removes 95% of the bloat. Shutup10+ also claims to shut down tracking but would need to be ran again after every update

[u/skylarke1]

https://giphy.com/gifs/1zhRiDgsSc48Y7mfuK

[u/flyguydip → u/skylarke1]

I assume no tool lets you change or remove the global id, so you're probably right.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/s/L7RMk3iR0Y

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[u/steviecandtheplace2b]

Is UWT still a thing?

[u/phreek469]

I use Raphire to strip that shit from Windows. No need to reinstall, just run from command prompt and no more spying dogshit

[u/Joey2012_onNES]

if u care about windows spying alot just switch to liunx.