Disable the Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program

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Disable the Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program

Disabling the Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program and the related Task Scheduler tasks that control this program can improve Windows 7 and Windows 8 system performance in large View desktop pools.

Procedure

1: In the Windows 7 or Windows 8 guest operating system, start the control panel and click Action Center > Change Action Center settings.

2: Click Customer Experience Improvement Program settings.

3: Select No, I don't want to participate in the program and click Save changes.

4: Start the control panel and click Administrative Tools > Task Scheduler.

5: In the Task Scheduler (Local) pane of the Task Scheduler dialog box, expand the Task Scheduler Library > Microsoft > Windows nodes and open the Application Experience folder.

6: Disable the AITAgent and ProgramDataUpdater tasks.

7: In the Task Scheduler Library > Microsoft > Windows node, open the Customer Experience Improvement Program folder.

8: Disable the Consolidator, KernelCEIPTask, and Use CEIP tasks.

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I traced C:\Windows\System32\wsqmcons.exe back to this junk above... even though i had it set to "no" in control panel it was still trying to do something - thanks to comodo firewal alerting me of this annoying junk!