Microsoft renames Diagnostic Tracking Service to Connected User Experiences and Telemetry

[Batu69]

Microsoft launched the first big update for its Windows 10 operating system this month and while it introduced several new features and much-needed improvements, issues were reported as well.

Probably the most common one was that Microsoft rest some or even all default apps and settings in the update.

If you are not observant about those things, you may not have noticed that settings were reset to their default values which, at least where privacy comes into play, is quite problematic.

While it does not take long to restore the previous settings and make other apps the default programs again on Windows 10, something like this should never have happened in first place.

Windows 10 version 1511 ships with another change that may cause confusion at first.

The Diagnostics Tracking Service is a core tracking service of the operating system that controls data collection.

One option that you had in the past was to disable the service using the Services Console to block the data collecting from happening.

If you check Services after the major update, you will notice that the Diagnostics Tracking Service is gone.

Did Microsoft listen to users for once? No, they did not. Microsoft renamed the service instead which means that you will find it listed under its new name Connected User Experiences and Telemetry instead.

It is unclear why Microsoft changed the name in the update. One explanation would be to make it clearer what the service does but since Microsoft did not announce the change, the motive behind the change is unclear.

This means however that you will have to disable that service after the update to Windows 10 Build 1511 if you don't want the diagtrack service to run on the system.

Disable the Connected User Experiences and Telemetry service

To disable the new service, do the following:

1. Tap on the Windows-key, type services.msc and hit enter.
2. Locate the Connected User Experiences and Telemetry service (services are sorted alphabetically).
3. Double-click on the service.
4. Select Stop to terminate it.
5. Change the Startup Type of the service to disabled.

It seems necessary that you check back regularly, not only in Services but also the privacy settings that Windows 10 lists in the Settings application and the changes that you had to make in the Group Policy Editor or the Registry directly, as there is no telling if things will be reset or changed again in the future.

Since I'm rather a pessimist than an optimist when it comes to these things, I fear that this will happen on a regular basis from now on. (via Tweakhound)

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[Cerberus]

With update through M$ update service it doesnt change name, only on fresh install. I just checked.

In vmware I just installed the retail multi edition of win10 x64 and it doesnt have Diagnostics Tracking Service in services so there are differences between builds.

[Misaki2010]

With update through M$ update service it doesnt change name, only on fresh install. I just checked.

In vmware I just installed the retail multi edition of win10 x64 and it doesnt have Diagnostics Tracking Service in services so there are differences between builds.

I did an upgrade through Windows Update and it changed for me...

[Cerberus]

I can post a pick to show you if you wish. It was never changed through update for me. Plus it doesnt matter really and I will explain. The new name listed Connected User Experiences and Telemetry service still is listed as DiagTrack in task manager so my WinTel.cmd still works with it regardless. ;)

[Skunk1966]

I can post a pick to show you if you wish. It was never changed through update for me. Plus it doesnt matter really and I will explain. The new name listed Connected User Experiences and Telemetry service still is listed as DiagTrack in task manager so my WinTel.cmd still works with it regardless. ;)

I somehow missed this WinTel.cmd

Where can I find this because I'm curious :)

In my upgraded Windows 10 Pro x64 TH2 it's the way you say above; no new name for DiagTrack

[shamu726]

They only changed display name, not service name, so not really affected by it.

[Cerberus]

Where can I find this because I'm curious.

MDL, Multi OEM Project.

[Karlston]

Yep, changing the name, that'll definitely make people comfortable with Microsoft's spying telemetry. :lol: :rolleyes:

More Microsoft deception and trickery. Shit is still shit regardless of what it's called.

[CODYQX4]

Yep, changing the name, that'll definitely make people comfortable with Microsoft's spying telemetry. :lol: :rolleyes:

More Microsoft deception and trickery. Shit is still shit regardless of what it's called.

Maybe if they called it "sunshine and lollipops", people might overlook it? Deactivate this garbage all the same.

[steven36]

How many coincidences does it take to be Scroogled?

“Anonymity is like virginity. You don't get it back once you've lost it,” writes one Register reader on Microsoft’s latest raid on your privacy.

Microsoft pulled a major update for Windows after it blew away the user's privacy settings, allowing app developers and advertisers to glean the user’s identity.
But that’s only part of the story, which gets murkier by the day.

We already knew Windows 10 Threshold deleted third-party data monitoring tools and cleanup tools, including stalwarts like Spybot and CCleaner. It even disabled Cisco’s VPN software. Just a bug, said Microsoft.

Two bugs would be a puzzling coincidence – but something else makes it altogether more troubling.

This year Microsoft introduced background tracking services called DiagTrack, or the Diagnostics Tracking Service. It was added to Windows 8.1 installations as well as betas of Windows 10. It arrived without much fanfare in May 14, in the shape of a patch, KB3022345.

It was just one of several slurping enhancements added via the back door.

The data that DiagTrack collected was typical of a spyware programme. The only way you knew you were being monitored was by eyeballing the list of running processes in Task Manager. As Microsoft explained:

Examples of data we collect include your name, email address, preferences and interests; browsing, search and file history; phone call and SMS data; device configuration and sensor data; and application usage.

Users thought it had disappeared in recent Windows 10 builds – but it hadn’t. Microsoft had simply renamed it.

The sinister-sounding tracking app was now the beatific and caring “Connected User Experiences and Telemetry Service”. Once again, it needs to be disabled manually (this time through the Services control panel).

“It is this kind of overriding desire for control and a disregard for user choices which is harming Windows 10,” says Forbes journo Gordon Kelly, and he’s right.
Microsoft spent millions portraying Google as a greedy and amoral data marauder. Redmond doesn't need to read your email, it told everyone. The Scroogled campaign positioned Microsoft itself as the ethical alternative; the occupier of the moral high ground.

For a while, it was. But Windows 10 is bad for your privacy, and it is damaging Microsoft’s reputation as a trusted consumer brand.

The face of Windows, Joe Belfiore, is now on a world cruise, taking a 12 month break. Who can blame him? Nobody seems to be in charge.

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[zavana]

Use Dism remove DiagTrack-Internal-Package

sc query diagtrack​The specified service does not exist as an installed service.

[csmdew]

what is the cmd to remove it, thanks

[zavana]

what is the cmd to remove it, thanks

Offline servicing

You need to mount the install.wim, take control of the registry then remove package with Dism.

Lazy for me to explain the full syntax(purely Dism method)

Or you can use Registry Tweak Tool. Search for "Microsoft-Windows-DiagTrack-Internal-Package" in packages list.

(Note. that thread is no longer updated with TH2 telemetry packages)

[Carver]

what is the cmd to remove it, thanks

This isn't exactly what your were asking but instead of removing it I add the following to options.cmd

and place it in $oem$\sources folder in the install media

Reg.exe add "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\DiagTrack" /v "Start" /t REG_DWORD /d "4" /f

Reg.exe add "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\dmwappushservice" /v "Start" /t REG_DWORD /d "4" /f

[Holmes]

This is the original post steven as for microsoft renaming it why make it headlines just remove the windows update that renamed it and keep the old name stopped and disabled and if you cant remove the windows update that renamed it stop the new connected user experiences and telemetry service service and disable it to. If you can remove it using a command line option and save disk space and not mess windows up do it heck to the yea.