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Clear Visual Studio telemetry and feedback data

Overview​

About this category

This category contains privacy scripts for Windows.

These changes use Windows system commands to update your settings.

These scripts delete data about you and your behavior that's locally stored by Visual Studio on your computer. These do not clear data that's already collected in Microsoft servers, but it can prevent sending more data by deleting data waiting to be sent.

Safe for General Use

This category is recommended for all users. It helps to improve privacy without affecting stability.

Apply now​

These scripts are written using Batch (batchfile) scripting language.

Choose one of two ways to apply:

  1. Automatically via privacy.sexy: The easiest and safest option.
  2. 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.

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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
  1. Open or download the desktop application
  2. Search for the category name: Clear Visual Studio telemetry and feedback data.
  3. Check the category by clicking on the checkbox of the category.
  4. Click on Run button at the bottom of the page.

Alternative 2. Download​

Consider restarting your computer for all changes to take affect.

Reversible

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.

Safe for General Use

Standard scripts in this category is recommended for all users. They help to improve privacy without affecting stability.

Download only standard scripts by clicking on the button:

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Restore these changes if you decide to revert them by downloading the restore script:

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Explore further​

This category includes total of 4 scripts but no subcategories.

Explore its 4 scripts:

Clear offline Visual Studio usage telemetry data

This script removes offline telemetry data in Visual Studio to enhance privacy and potentially improve system performance. These telemetry files, known as SQM (Service Quality Monitoring or Software Quality Metrics), contain details about application usage, errors, and performance. SQM files are created and used by Microsoft to gather data for the Microsoft Customer Experience Improvement Program. When offline, Visual Studio stores these files in the user's local application data folder. Rem...

Clear Visual Studio temporary telemetry and log data

These logs area created by different tools that Visual Studio uses such as its launcher, installer or data collection agents. Folders include "VSFaultInfo", "VSFeedbackPerfWatsonData", "VSFeedbackCollector", "VSFeedbackVSRTCLogs", "VSRemoteControl", "VSFeedbackIntelliCodeLogs", "VSTelem", "VSTelem.Out". There are more log and cache data stored by Visual Studio, but not all of them come with privacy implications. These files can be useful for faster loading, so this script removes only the sensit...

Explore Categories​

This action belongs to Clear Visual Studio usage data category. Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft that is used to develop software. Visual Studio store data such as your usage of the software and also information about your hardware. The data is stored both in Microsoft cloud and locally on computer. These scripts... Read more on category page ▶

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