Windows 10 Dominator : Manage Privacy Settings from One Place

[Batu69]

When Microsoft offered Windows 10 as a free upgrade to Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 SP1 users last year, everyone rejoiced and readily opted for the upgrade. But soon it was discovered that Windows 10 has so many programs and components that send a feedback about how you use your PC to Microsoft servers. After that everyone became very cautious about upgrading to Windows 10 and turning off various settings in Windows 10 if they actually upgrade to the new operating system.

 

Now almost one year has passed and nothing has changed – Microsoft has actually become more aggressive about advertising their products via Windows updates and hiding the privacy related options much deeper into a pile of settings. If you want to be able to manage those privacy settings from one place instead of hunting for them in dozens of locations, then you can use Windows 10 Dominator tool.

 

 

Windows 10 Dominator is an open source tool that allows you to manage all the privacy settings in Windows 10 that are otherwise difficult to configure. You can manage various privacy, telemetry, location and other miscellaneous settings using this small program.

 

Under the privacy settings, you can toggle the search bar results, use of your advertising ID by apps, sending feedback to Microsoft, logging of keystrokes, and asking for your feedback etc. You can also switch off telemetry data collection, connecting to Microsoft telemetry servers, prevent the apps from requesting your location, turn off SmartScreen filter and more.

 

 

All of these settings are available somewhere in Windows but Windows 10 Dominator allows you to easily control them from its interface. However, if you want to manually change these settings in Windows, then you can click on the more.. shown next to each of the settings in Windows 10 Dominator. For example, if you click on more.. displayed next to the SmartScreen filter setting, then it opens Windows settings window where you can manually modify the setting.

 

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[straycat19]

There are so many of these telemetry  blocking solutions available and no one has taken the time to evaluate them against one another to see which works the best because it would take too much time.   You would literally need a system running each 'solution' with a monitoring program and they would need to run for a year, at least.  The reason for this is that some of the telemetry connections are on a schedule to only connect at certain intervals to send data, and having one connection that would only send data a year after installation is not something that Microsoft would not do, since they did something similar with a piece of data in Windows 2000.  That I know of there are only two people who have setup bare Windows 10 Systems and have been running them continuously since the initial release to monitor their connections. I previously mentioned in a post that so far we had found 253 connections, and it hasn't been a year yet.  I won't release the list until the group unanimously agrees to do so since that is the agreement we have always abided by since we met in 1986 in Germany. Our friendship has survived all these years because we absolutely trust one another with our lives.