3 docs tagged with "disable-windows-update-data-collection"

Delivery Optimization is a Windows feature that provides the Windows Updates through peer-to-peer sharing. In simple terms, instead of solely relying on Microsoft's servers for updates, your computer can also fetch them from other devices that already possess the necessary files. The "Delivery Optimization" service manages these content delivery tasks. It orchestrates the retrieval of updates both from other Windows users. In doing so, it connects to various Microsoft service points to collect d...

Windows Delivery Optimization is a feature introduced by Microsoft to facilitate a more efficient downloading process for Windows updates, upgrades, and applications. Instead of exclusively relying on Microsoft's servers, this feature identifies other PCs on a user's local network or even across the internet that already possess the desired updates or applications. By breaking the download into smaller segments and fetching each from the fastest and most reliable source, which can include other ...

This script modifies Delivery Optimization's download method for Windows Updates to disable peering. When this script is run, it sets the download method to "0", which means "HTTP only, no peering". As a result, Windows Updates are downloaded solely from the internet and not from other computers on the network (referred to as "peer-to-peer"). Peer-to-peer is a method where multiple computers share data amongst themselves. For Windows Updates, the default setting is for computers within a network...