Today companies rely on anonymous data to see how people use their products and Microsoft is definitely one of them, they use this data to see what settings are set to what this can help with them setting better default settings for new installations of windows, thankfully if you don't want to share this information you can fully disable it. In this tutorial, we will be using group policy to disable it. Sorry Windows 10 Home users you cant use the group policy application as it's not part of Windows 10 Home.

Disabling windows telemetry

Tutorial

Note: Images are at the bottom of the page showing what menus you will be navigating.

Let's get straight to it, Firstly open the run box you can do this by holding

Windows key + R then type gpedit.msc once group policy has opened up goto the area below

Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Data Collection and Preview Builds > Allow Telemetry

Change it from Not Configured to Disabled then close out of group policy then restart your computer and enjoy Windows Telemetry being turned off.

Thanks for reading