This script prevents Windows apps from accessing the Documents folder. It restricts app access to document files without user consent. After running this script, apps can still access the files when explicitly permitted. This script enhances your privacy and security by preventing unauthorized app access. This script configures: Privacy settings user interface ("documentsLibrary")
This script prevents Windows apps from accessing the Music folder. It restricts app access to audio files without user consent. After running this script, apps can still access the files when explicitly permitted. This script enhances your privacy and security by preventing unauthorized app access. This script configures: Privacy settings user interface ("musicLibrary")
This script prevents Windows apps from accessing the Pictures folder. It restricts app access to photos and images without user consent. After running this script, apps can still access the files when explicitly permitted. This script enhances your privacy and security by preventing unauthorized app access. This script configures: Privacy settings user interface ("picturesLibrary")
This script prevents Windows apps from accessing the Videos folder. It restricts app access to video files without user consent. After running this script, apps can still access the files when explicitly permitted. This script enhances your privacy and security by preventing unauthorized app access. This script configures: Privacy settings user interface ("videosLibrary")
This script prevents Windows apps from accessing account information. This includes your name and picture. By limiting this access, the script enhances your privacy by protecting against potential misuse of personal details by apps. This script configures: Windows policy ("LetAppsAccessAccountInfo") • Privacy settings user interface ("C1D23ACC-752B-43E5-8448-8D0E519CD6D6", "userAccountInformation")
This script prevents Windows apps from running in the background. This script may improve system performance by reducing resource usage. This script configures: Windows policy ("LetAppsRunInBackground") • Privacy settings user interface ("BackgroundAccessApplications!GlobalUserDisabled")
This category enhances user privacy by blocking unauthorized access to Bluetooth devices through Windows apps. It restricts Bluetooth connections, preventing apps from initiating unwanted communication or data exchange.
This script prevents Windows apps from accessing the calendar data. This includes information about appointments from your synced network accounts. It protects personal schedule by preventing apps from automatically creating, reading or writing to calendars without explicit user permission. This script configures: Windows policy ("LetAppsAccessCalendar") • Privacy settings user interface ("D89823BA-7180-4B81-B50C-7E471E6121A3", "appointments")
This script prevents Windows apps from accessing your call history. It protects past communication records by blocking apps from automatically reading and deleting call history without explicit user permission. This script configures: Windows policy ("LetAppsAccessCallHistory") • Privacy settings user interface ("8BC668CF-7728-45BD-93F8-CF2B3B41D7AB", "phoneCallHistory")
This script prevents Windows apps from accessing the camera. By disabling access, it ensures that no app can use the camera to capture photos or videos without explicit user permission, thereby protecting privacy. This script configures: Windows policy ("LetAppsAccessCamera") • Privacy settings user interface ("E5323777-F976-4f5b-9B55-B94699C46E44", "webcam")
This script prevents Windows apps from accessing email. It protects your privacy by blocking apps from automatically reading, sending, organizing emails without your permission. This script configures: Windows policy ("LetAppsAccessEmail") • Privacy settings user interface ("9231CB4C-BF57-4AF3-8C55-FDA7BFCC04C5", "email")
This script prevents Windows apps from accessing the eye tracker. This script improves privacy by blocking apps from tracking users' eye automatically without explicit user instruction. This script configures: Windows policy ("LetAppsAccessGazeInput") • Privacy settings user interface ("gazeInput")
This script prevents Windows apps from accessing presence sensing. Presence data includes information on user presence and engagement. This data could potentially be used to infer user behavior or activities. This script improves privacy by blocking apps from Presence Sensors on the device without explicit user instruction. This script configures: Windows policy ("LetAppsAccessHumanPresence") • Privacy settings user interface ("humanPresence")
This script prevents Windows apps from accessing diagnostic information about other apps. This includes details like user names, package information, memory usage, and account names for any running UWP apps. This script configures: Windows policy ("LetAppsGetDiagnosticInfo") • Privacy settings user interface ("2297E4E2-5DBE-466D-A12B-0F8286F0D9CA", "appDiagnostics")
This script prevents apps from accessing Human Interface Device (HID) capabilities. HIDs include a wide range of devices such as keyboards, mice, and other input devices that can communicate directly with the system. By restricting access, the script ensures that applications cannot intercept or record input data from these devices, thereby safeguarding user interactions. This script configures: Privacy settings user interface ("humanInterfaceDevice")
This script prevents Windows apps from accessing your location. It restricts access to location-specific network information and sensors, enhancing your privacy and security. This script configures: Windows policy ("LetAppsAccessLocation") • Privacy settings user interface ("BFA794E4-F964-4FDB-90F6-51056BFE4B44", "location") • Location Services ("E6AD100E-5F4E-44CD-BE0F-2265D88D14F5", "lfsvc")
This script prevents Windows apps from accessing messages, securing message content from unauthorized access and improving privacy. It protects your privacy by blocking apps from automatically reading, storing, sending, or deleting SMS/MMS messages without your permission. This script configures: Windows policy ("LetAppsAccessMessaging") • Privacy settings user interface ("992AFA70-6F47-4148-B3E9-3003349C1548", "21157C1F-2651-4CC1-90CA-1F28B02263F6", "chat")
This script prevents Windows apps from accessing the microphone. It enhances privacy by preventing apps from recording audio, which may include sensitive conversations. This script configures: Windows policy ("LetAppsAccessMicrophone") • Privacy settings user interface ("2EEF81BE-33FA-4800-9670-1CD474972C3F", "microphone")
This script prevents Windows apps from accessing motion data. By running this script, you improve your privacy by preventing apps from automatically tracking physical movements without permission. This script configures: Windows policy ("LetAppsAccessMotion"). • Privacy settings user interface ("activity").
This script prevents Windows apps from accessing notifications. It enhances privacy by ensuring that apps cannot access or manage notifications without explicit user permission. Notifications can contain personal or sensitive information. This script configures: Windows policy ("LetAppsAccessNotifications") • Privacy settings user interface ("52079E78-A92B-413F-B213-E8FE35712E72", "userNotificationListener")
This script prevents Windows apps from accessing paired Bluetooth devices. This script improves your privacy by preventing apps from automatically interacting with paired Bluetooth devices, thus blocking unauthorized data exchanges without your permission. This script configures: Privacy settings user interface ("bluetooth")
This script restricts app access to the broader file system. It restricts app access to files that the user has access to without user consent. After running this script, apps can still access the files when explicitly permitted. This script enhances your privacy and security by preventing unauthorized app access. This script configures: Privacy settings user interface ("broadFileSystemAccess")
This category contains scripts that restrict app access to phone-related functionalities. They protect your privacy and security by ensuring communication details remain private and are accessible only when necessary.
This script prevents Windows apps from accessing phone calls. This includes reading phone call data and making phone calls. By controlling app permissions related to phone functionalities, it ensures that your personal communication remains private and secure, requiring explicit user approval before any app can interact with phone calls. The restrictions include: Preventing apps from accessing phone call data, including metadata and call triggers. • Disallowing apps from managing spam filters, s...
This script prevents Windows apps from accessing spatial perception data. This includes movement of the user's head, hands, motion controllers, and other tracked objects, as well as nearby surfaces. This data may be accessed while the apps are running in the background. This script enhances privacy by preventing apps from accessing body-related data automatically , without explicit user permission. This script configures: Windows policy ("LetAppsAccessBackgroundSpatialPerception") • Privacy sett...
This script prevents Windows apps from controlling radios, improving privacy by preventing unauthorized use or toggling of these components. This script ensures that apps cannot toggle device radios such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth without your explicit consent. This script configures: Windows policy ("LetAppsAccessRadios") • Privacy settings user interface ("A8804298-2D5F-42E3-9531-9C8C39EB29CE", "radios")
This script restricts Windows apps from taking screenshots of the user's screen. This script improves privacy by blocking apps from taking screenshots programmatically, and without showing a screenshot border, without explicit user instruction. This script configures: Windows policy ("LetAppsAccessGraphicsCaptureProgrammatic", "LetAppsAccessGraphicsCaptureWithoutBorder") • Privacy settings user interface ("graphicsCaptureProgrammatic", "graphicsCaptureWithoutBorder")
This script prevents Windows apps from accessing task data. These task items may be stored by Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) connections and other provider apps. This script protects your privacy by preventing unauthorized access without your permission to your task information. This script configures: Windows policy ("LetAppsAccessTasks") • Privacy settings user interface ("E390DF20-07DF-446D-B962-F5C953062741", "userDataTasks")
This script prevents Windows apps from accessing trusted devices. It restricts apps from automatically connecting to or controlling trusted devices without your permission, enhancing privacy protection. This script configures: Windows policy ("LetAppsAccessTrustedDevices")
This script prevents Windows apps from accessing unpaired Bluetooth devices. This script protects your privacy by blocking apps from automatically sharing and synchronizing information with wireless devices that don't explicitly pair with your PC, preventing unauthorized data exchange without your permission. This script configures: Privacy settings user interface ("bluetoothSync")
This script prevents Windows apps from communicating with unpaired wireless devices. It prevents automatic sharing and synchronization of information with devices that aren't paired. For example, these devices can be gaming consoles (e.g., Xbox One), phones, TVs, tablets. By preventing apps from sending or receiving data from such devices, this script protects your security and privacy. This script configures: Windows policy ("LetAppsSyncWithDevices") • Privacy settings user interface (`LooselyC...
This script prevents Windows apps from voice activation. This script improves privacy by preventing apps from being activated and from continuing to listen automatically while the device is locked without explicit user instruction. This protects your security against potential eavesdropping or accidental triggering of applications. This script configures: Windows policy ("LetAppsActivateWithVoice") • Privacy settings user interface ("AgentActivationEnabled")
This script prevents Windows apps from voice activation when the system is locked. This script improves privacy by preventing apps from being activated and from continuing to listen automatically while the device is locked without explicit user instruction. This protects your security against potential eavesdropping or accidental triggering of applications. This script configures: Windows policy ("LetAppsActivateWithVoiceAboveLock") • Privacy settings user interface ("AgentActivationEnabled")
This script prevents Windows apps from accessing your contact list. Your contact list may include sensitive details synced from various networks. This script improves privacy by safeguarding personal and sensitive details in your contact list by restrictings applications from automatically accessing it. This script configures: Windows policy ("LetAppsAccessContacts") • Privacy settings user interface ("7D7E8402-7C54-4821-A34E-AEEFD62DED93", "contacts")
This category limits the access of Windows apps to various user-specific folders and other file systems. It enhances privacy by restricting apps from accessing and manipulating files without explicit user permission.
This category safeguards against unauthorized app activation via voice commands. It includes measures to disable voice activation for apps, ensuring that apps cannot be triggered by voice and start listening without explicit user permission. This protects your security against potential eavesdropping or accidental triggering of applications.