Disable background customer experience data collection
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- Windows onlyThis script improves your privacy on Windows
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Overview
This category includes scripts that disable scheduled tasks from the Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP).
The CEIP, designed by Microsoft, collects background data on user interactions with its products 1. This data collection is executed through multiple background tasks that transmit usage data to Microsoft 1.
Scripts in this category stop these tasks, thereby reducing data transmission to Microsoft, enhancing privacy, and improving system performance.
Use the following PowerShell command to list all scheduled tasks associated with the CEIP:
@('\Microsoft\Windows\Autochk\*', '\Microsoft\Windows\Customer Experience Improvement Program\*', '\Microsoft\Windows\DiskDiagnostic\*', '\Microsoft\Windows\Customer Experience Improvement Program\Server\*') `
| ForEach-Object { Get-ScheduledTask -TaskName '*' -TaskPath $_ -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue } `
| ForEach-Object { Write-Host "$($_.TaskPath)$($_.TaskName)" }
Sources
- What's New in Telemetry. Microsoft Learn. learn.microsoft.com. (2024).
Original: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2012-r2-and-2012/jj651022(v=ws.11)
Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20240718151636/https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2012-r2-and-2012/jj651022(v=ws.11)
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- 11 Privacy settings
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