Disable Cortana activity history
Overview
This category contains privacy scripts for Windows.
These changes use Windows system commands to update your settings.
This category focuses on preventing Cortana from storing and displaying user interaction history.
When enabled, Cortana collects data on user activities, such as interactions with the assistant and search queries, to personalize the user experience. This collection can be a privacy concern as it involves the retention and potential analysis of personal behavior patterns.
By disabling this feature, users can prevent their activity history from being used for customization or other purposes, thereby enhancing their privacy and potentially improving system performance by reducing background data processing tasks.
This category is recommended for all users. It helps to improve privacy without affecting stability.
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These scripts are written using Batch (batchfile) scripting language.
Choose one of two ways to apply:
- Automatically via privacy.sexy: The easiest and safest option.
- Manually by downloading: Requires downloading a file.
Alternative 1. Apply with Privacy.sexy
privacy.sexy is free and open-source application that lets securely apply this action easily.
It allows selectively choose parts of this action to conduct. You can fully restore this action (revert back to the original behavior) using the application.
privacy.sexy instructions
- Open or download the desktop application
- Search for the category name:
Disable Cortana activity history. - Check the category by clicking on the checkbox of the category.
- Click on Run button at the bottom of the page.
Alternative 2. Download
Consider restarting your computer for all changes to take affect.
This action is completely reversible, you can restore your changes to the initial/default state. The restore/revert methods provided here can help you fix issues.
If something goes wrong, use the Revert script provided above.
Standard
This script includes only Standard recommendation level.
Standard scripts in this category is recommended for all users. They help to improve privacy without affecting stability.
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Explore further
This category includes total of 2 scripts but no subcategories.
Explore its 2 scripts:
Disable Cortana's history display
This script configures Windows using Batch (batchfile).It can be restored. It runs ":: Set the registry value:...".
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Explore Categories
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