Clear Visual Studio telemetry and feedback data
- Windows onlyThis script improves your privacy on Windows
- Multiple actionsThis page belongs to a category, containing some changes with similar goal.
- Impact: Minimum
System Functionality / Data 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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- Administrator rights requiredThis script requires privilege access to do the system changes
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Overview
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.
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Normal — Everyday Privacy (Enterprise-Grade)
- Recommended for all
- Safe for daily use
- No impact on system stability
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- Difficulty: Simple
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Restart your computer for all changes to take effect.
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- 4 Privacy settings
Choose what to protect based on your needs: Click any option to learn more about what it does. Each change can be applied and reversed individually.
- Some settings and commands may require technical knowledge to apply correctly.
- Most users find the Normal protection above sufficient.
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 Application Insights logs
Application Insights for Visual Studio stores diagnostic data for e.g. exceptions and performance. Application Insights store ".TRN" files that might grow and exceed thousands.
Clear Visual Studio telemetry data
"vstelemetry" is a folder created by both Visual Studio and also by SQL Server Management Studio to store telemetry data. There has been security vulnerabilities through these folders that were patched in 2020 by Microsoft.
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...
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