Disable Activity Feed feature
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Works with Windows 10 and 11Works with Windows Vista, XP, 7, 8, 10, 11, and Windows Server 2008 or newer.
- Single actionThis page belongs to a script, containing basic changes to achieve a task.
- Windows onlyThis script improves your privacy on Windows
- Impact: MinimumSystem Functionality Loss Risk: Low
This action improves privacy with minimal impact when you run the recommended script. - Batch (batchfile)These changes use Windows system commands to update your settings.
- Fully reversible
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Windows important data privacy control user configuration: disable Activity Feed feature to minimize tracking risks for secure data privacy enforcement. What's equally important, this specification offers a detailed exploration of how to reset to original values.
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References
- How Hardening is reflected in the different NIST Standards
- Best Practices for Security and Privacy Settings
- Data Security and Privacy: Concepts, Approaches, and Research Directions
- Windows Registry Forensic Tool Specification
- The Prioritized Approach to Pursue PCI DSS Compliance
- Privacy settings
Technical Details
- To gain deep system-level privacy modifications, this script adjusts registry entries to maximize information privacy management. This helps decrease energy and performance consumption, to benefit from efficient setting management.
- This adjustment adjusts core system settings to be able to maintain stricter information privacy enforcement as part of comprehensive protection. It aims to help balanced configurations to help maintain better system performance.
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:: Set the registry value: "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System!EnableActivityFeed"
PowerShell -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Command "$registryPath = 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System'; $data = '0'; reg add 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System' /v 'EnableActivityFeed' /t 'REG_DWORD' /d "^""$data"^"" /f"
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How to apply or restore "Disable Activity Feed feature" using commands
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- Difficulty: Medium
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