Disable automatic map downloads
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- 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.
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Increase sensitive data handling Windows: disable automatic map downloads to maximize your system data privacy maintenance. Not only that, this documentation provides instructions to reset the changed configurations.
Exploring new ideas is made safer and freer through personal data privacy maintenance. Update data handling maintenance control right now: see the guide to apply the necessary update. Focus on completing one step at a time to avoid confusion. Skipping steps often causes unnecessary frustration later.
References
- Best Practices for Security and Privacy Settings
- Guidelines for System Hardening
- A Security-Privacy Based Model for Operating Systems
- Registry
- Windows registry information for advanced users
Technical Details
The modification here implements update scheduling to benefit from protected user data during updates and it aims to help to strengthen cyber data privacy safeguard. To accomplish minimized bandwidth usage, it helps reduce unnecessary system tasks.
To gain precise privacy configurations, this action manages registry configurations to be able to reinforce personal data security. This config can also help optimizing system configurations to make programs work better.
This change orchestrates core system preferences to help increase online privacy defenses for protected system policies. With efficient operations, this instruction set helps optimize software and hardware performance.
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:: Set the registry value: "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Maps!AllowUntriggeredNetworkTrafficOnSettingsPage"
PowerShell -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Command "$registryPath = 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Maps'; $data = '0'; reg add 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Maps' /v 'AllowUntriggeredNetworkTrafficOnSettingsPage' /t 'REG_DWORD' /d "^""$data"^"" /f"
:: Set the registry value: "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Maps!AutoDownloadAndUpdateMapData"
PowerShell -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Command "$registryPath = 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Maps'; $data = '0'; reg add 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Maps' /v 'AutoDownloadAndUpdateMapData' /t 'REG_DWORD' /d "^""$data"^"" /f"
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