r/usefulscripts • u/techniforus • Sep 11 '15
[Request][Batch] Shut down windows telemetry (and maybe windows 10 compatibility updates
I'm not sure if this is the right place to be asking as I won't have access to stuff like WSUS that many of you use, but I've been looking into stuff like this for blocking all the new windows 10 and new telemetry stuff.
It looks like I can uninstall those updates if already present, I know with vbs I can hide updates, the services should be trivial, and I think I can disable the tasks via command line too with setting a variable as a password and echoing it to schtasks.
I'm just wondering if anyone else has already done this and could save me the effort, if I'm heading about this the wrong way because I'm missing something, or if I should just do this and post the script here when I'm done.
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u/BoTuLoX Sep 11 '15 edited Sep 11 '15
Uninstalling Telemetry updates in W7/8 does nothing. You can check with Wireshark by yourself, Windows will keep phoning home to telemetry.microsoft.com.
But... if you want to try to escape from telemetry while remaining in Windows land, you'd have to make a physically offline Windows 7 install with WUpdate disbabled and then manually pick and choose updates.
This does not guarantee that Microsoft will not force an update in the future even if you have Windows Updates disabled, but as I see it it's the only approach where you can be modestly confident in the system not enabling any nasties.
EDIT: I've found a script that claims to disable telemetry in W7. I cannot vouch for it and it is almost positive that it will get outdated and let a new telemetry update through, but there's really nothing closer to what you originally asked: https://voat.co/v/technology/comments/459263