There are many criticisms of the world’s most used operating system for desktops, Windows 10. Some of these focus on its consumption of resources, others on UWP applications, updates , or privacy.
These problems that many users warn, make them continue to use older versions of the system itself, as with Windows 7. In fact, there are still many millions of still use this software in their day-to-day with the PC, all despite that this particular system doesn’t even get official support anymore. This means that, at least for free, Windows 7 computers do not receive updates of any kind, with the risks that this entails.
In addition to the possible problems of many of the updates that Windows 10 currently receives, another of the most common complaints concerns privacy. And is that the system itself collects certain usage data to send them to Microsoft . At this time we can choose between two levels of privacy, but we cannot disable this data collection completely. We find the necessary and optional diagnostic data, something we specify in the Settings application.
But with everything and with this, we recommend, at least in most cases, specify the minimum level of this data collection by Microsoft. That is why to increase privacy in Windows, we must establish the necessary diagnostic data . Of course, we can always use third-party solutions to disable all telemetry in Windows 10.
And there are several reasons why we must prevent certain information from reaching Microsoft, even anonymously, report those from Redmond.
To avoid monitoring the websites visited
This is one of the aspects that Windows 10 itself monitors when we have set the level of optional diagnostic data. Needless to say, nobody likes to know the websites visited, both for security and privacy. Hence, this is a compelling reason to avoid this that we comment on when using the Redmond software.
To not disclose the use of our programs
We must bear in mind that other types of data that Microsoft also requires as part of telemetry, is the use we make of installed applications. And, as you can imagine, this is something that almost no one likes and that we can avoid just by selecting the necessary diagnostic data. The use, not only of the operating system as such, but of everything that we install and store in it, is an important part of the privacy of users when using the PC.
Prevent the status and your activity with the PC from being known
As we work in Windows, if we have the Optional Diagnostic Data function active, the operating system itself sends Microsoft the status of the computer and the activity that we carry out with it. This is something that, as you can imagine, almost no one likes, and by the way it is something that we can avoid in a simple way, just change to the necessary Data in Settings Privacy .
To not share personal Windows settings
Each of us has our own operating system configured as we see fit, or as we need it. And Microsoft tries to know that data regarding the configuration of Windows 10 , something that we should avoid at all costs.
