Windows 10 personal data

Сообщение отредактировал Rammsteiner — 23.08.19, 12:03

Минимальные системные требования

• Процессор: С частотой не менее 1 ГГц или SoC
• ОЗУ: 1 ГБ (для 32-разрядных систем) или 2 ГБ (для 64-разрядных систем)
• Место на жестком диске: 16 ГБ (для 32-разрядных систем) или 20 ГБ (для 64-разрядных систем), начиная с версии 1903 — 32 ГБ
• Видеокарта: DirectX версии 9 или выше с драйвером WDDM 1.0
• Дисплей: 800 x 600

Сообщение отредактировал Rammsteiner — 23.06.19, 13:04

Обновления, необходимые для резервирования Windows 10

Для Windows 7 SP1
KB3035583
KB2952664(-v13)

Для Windows 8.1
KB3035583 x64
KB2976978 x64
KB3035583 x86
KB2976978 x86

Сообщение отредактировал KOT-BE3DEXOD — 04.10.15, 12:43

Что делать если резервированное обновление не приходит

Как один из вариантов:
1) Переходим в папку C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download и удаляем там все имеющиеся файлы и папки
2) Запускаем командную строку, и прописываем в ней следующую команду wuauclt.exe /updatenow
В течении 5 минут после этого начнется скачивание всех необходимых файлов для обновления.
Процесс можно отслеживать:
Правой кнопкой мыши по значку ПУСК -> Система -> Центр обновления Windows
¤ regedit.exe — перейти в ветку HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\OSUpgrade (если ветка отсутствует – создать ее вручную)
Создать параметр типа DWORD (32-bit) с именем AllowOSUpgrade и значением 0x00000001
Заново открыть панель центра обновлений Windows и еще раз запустить процесс поиска обновлений.
¤ Обновить систему через Media Creation Tool
¤ Или следуем этой инструкции — Windows 10 (Пост Shoore #41928818)

Сообщение отредактировал KOT-BE3DEXOD — 05.10.15, 11:05

Windows 10 privacy issues: What you need to know?

• The new Privacy Policy states that Microsoft will use certain methods to collect information about software performance and bugs, in order to make the final release of Windows 10 as reliable as possible.
• But this Privacy Statement and Microsoft ‘s method of collecting personal information have disturbed a lot of users . People just don’t want to share their personal information and what they do and where they go on the internet with Microsoft .
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We live in the age when our privacy is more vulnerable than ever and we’re in constant fear if somebody is watching what we are doing on the internet.

Prior to that, we’re becoming more and more skeptical of the new products that big companies are offering to us, and we try to find ways in h ow to increase privacy on windows 10

Does Windows 10 attend to your personal privacy or it has privacy policy issues?

The new Privacy Policy states that Microsoft will use certain methods to collect information about software performance and bugs, in order to make the final release of Windows 10 as reliable as possible.

When you acquire, install and use the Program, Microsoft collects information about you, your devices, applications and networks, and your use of those devices, applications, and networks, the privacy policy stated.

Examples of data we collect include your name, email address, preferences and interests; browsing, search and file history; phone call and SMS data; device configuration and sensor data; and application usage.

Microsoft provided four examples, one of which clearly states that when entering text into any application, Microsoft may collect those typed characters. Why? So that the company can fine-tune the spell check and autocomplete features.

Again, the Technical Preview is not ideal on machines used for everyday purposes unless users don’t care about this character collection.

But this Privacy Statement and Microsoft’s method of collecting personal information have disturbed a lot of users. People just don’t want to share their personal information and what they do and where they go on the internet with Microsoft.

And reactions from them are mixed. Some of them accept Microsoft’s method of collecting data by saying that the purpose of the preview is to collect as much data as possible in order to make a good and stable operating system.

While others often don’t refrain from curses when reporting about their disagreement with Microsoft.

But at least, Microsoft was fair for saying all of that in the Privacy Statement, so you cannot say that you haven’t been warned and that Microsoft is spying on you against your will, because it is completely up to you whether you’ll use Technical Preview and expose your personal info to Microsoft, or not.

But Microsoft is aware that people don’t like its way, so they don’t recommend you to install Windows 10 Technical Preview on computers that you use every day.

What can you do for minimizing the impact of collecting your personal data?

In case you are one of the persons who are highly concerned about their personal data, you can always stay anonymous while surfing the internet. You can use a proxy server or a good VPN.

If you suppose that Microsoft already collected some of your personal data, you can avoid anyone uses it against your digital profile.

From all VPN services out there that can hide your computer’s IP, keep you safe from attacks and hackers and keep your data secured and encrypted, Cyberghost is the best in terms of quality-price.

Available at $2.75 per month, you have plenty of great features in it and keeps your digital traces anonymous.

How Microsoft categorizes data for online services

Data used to deliver online and professional services

Customer data

Customer data is all data, including text, sound, video or image files, and software that you provide to Microsoft or that’s provided on your behalf through your use of Microsoft enterprise online services, excluding Microsoft Professional Services. It includes customer content, which is the data you upload for storage or processing and apps you upload for distribution through a Microsoft enterprise cloud service.

For example, customer content includes Exchange Online email and attachments, Power BI reports, SharePoint Online site content, or instant messaging conversations.

Diagnostic data

Diagnostic data includes all data “collected” or “obtained” from software that you locally install for use in connection with the Microsoft enterprise online service. It is used to help Microsoft ensure the client software is secure and performing properly.

For example, Microsoft collects information about how long it takes to launch an app, whether an add-in has crashed, and how many times a sign-in has been attempted. Diagnostic data can also be referred to as telemetry data. It does not include names, email addresses, or file content.

Service-generated data

Service-generated data includes all data “generated” or “derived” by Microsoft through the operation of an online service. Microsoft aggregates this data from our online services and uses it to make sure performance, security, scaling, and other services that impact the customer experience are operating at the levels our customers require.

For example, to understand how to ramp up data center capacity as a customer’s use of Microsoft Teams increases, we process log data of their Teams usage. We then review the logs for peak times and decide which data centers to add to meet this capacity.

Professional services data

Professional Services Data means all data, provided to Microsoft, or processed by Microsoft, upon authorization and through an engagement with Microsoft to obtain Professional Services. Professional Services Data includes support data that is provided to Microsoft during technical support for an online service.

For example, include text, sound, video, image files, or software provided to Microsoft during troubleshooting.

Other Microsoft data definitions

Administrator data

Administrator data is information about administrators supplied during signup, purchase, or administration of Microsoft services, such as names, phone numbers, and email addresses. It also includes aggregated usage information and data associated with your account, such as the controls you select. We use administrator data to provide services, complete transactions, service the account, and detect and prevent fraud.

Payment data

Payment data is the information you provide when you buy something online with Microsoft. It may include a credit card number and security code, name, billing address, and other financial data. We use payment data to complete transactions and to detect and prevent fraud.

Personal data

“Personal Data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. An identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, such as a name, an identification number, location coordinates, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

Microsoft uses the same GDPR definition for personal data. It includes pseudonymized data. In addition to being a subset of administrator data and payment data, personal data is a subset of each of the data categories presented above.

Windows 10 doesn’t offer much privacy by default: Here’s how to fix it

Windows 10 shares a lot of personal data with Microsoft, but you can turn most of it off.

Sebastian Anthony — Aug 4, 2015 4:00 pm UTC

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Updated, August 5 @ 11:29am BST (6:29 EDT): This story has been updated with a few more Windows 10 features that gather up your data and/or behaviour and send it back to Microsoft, and some suggestions on how to disable them.

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Windows 10, by default, has permission to report a huge amount of data back to Microsoft. By clicking through «Express Settings» during installation, you allow Windows 10 to gather up your contacts, calendar details, text and touch input, location data, and a whole lot more. The OS then sends it all back to Microsoft so that it can be used for personalisation and targeted ads.

This isn’t entirely unusual: recent versions of Windows, unless you explicitly say otherwise, have reported some kind of data back to Microsoft. Windows 10 definitely goes one step (well, a few steps) further though, primarily thanks to Cortana (which ideally needs to be personalised/optimised based on your voice inputs, calendar, contacts, etc.) and other «cloudy» features that somewhat necessitate the collection and squirting of personal data back to Microsoft.

That isn’t to say you should be happy about this state of affairs, however. If you’d like to retain most of your privacy and keep your personal data on your PC, Windows 10 can be configured in that way. Just be warned that there are quite a few toggles that need to be turned off, and you’ll lose some functionality as well (Cortana won’t work, for example).

How to make Windows 10 respect your privacy

By far the easiest way to disable Windows 10’s various data logging, personalisation, and telemetry functions is to turn them off during the upgrade/installation process. (If you’ve already installed Windows 10, skip ahead to the next section.)

On the installation screen where it wants you to press «Use Express settings,» instead click the small «Customise settings» button. The first customisation page has settings for personalisation, targeted advertising, and location tracking. If you’re trying to maximise your privacy, go ahead and disable everything on this first page.

The second page has a somewhat useful option at the top, but the others—predictive Web browsing, connecting to open Wi-Fi hot spots, and Wi-Fi Sense—can be turned off.

Additionally, during the setup of Windows 10, another way of sharing less data with Microsoft is to create a local user account rather than log in with a Microsoft account. When prompted for your Microsoft account credentials, instead click «Create a new account» and then «Sign in without a Microsoft account» on the following page. It goes without saying, but this will prevent any of your settings/data from automatically propagating to any other Windows devices that you own.

Now go ahead and complete the installation; the next steps need to be done from within Windows 10.

Head to the new Settings app and click the Privacy button. You can toggle all of these settings to «Off,» though you may choose to keep SmartScreen Filter enabled. Most of these may already be disabled if you turned everything off during installation.

At the bottom of the Privacy applet, click Feedback. From here, you can set the Feedback frequency to «never,» which may prevent Windows 10 from reporting some data back to Microsoft. Note, however, that «Feedback options» cannot currently be disabled; it can only be set to «basic.» More on this later.

Now it’s time to disable Cortana. Hit the Start button. Type a few letters and the Start screen will be replaced by a grey search window. Click the cog icon to reveal Cortana’s settings pane (pictured right) and then triumphantly slay her by flipping the toggle to «Off.» If you’d rather keep Cortana turned on but with some of her other abilities curtailed, they can be configured here as well.

That should be about it: you are now reporting very little data back to Microsoft.

The big question, of course, is whether the potential gain in privacy is outweighed by the loss in functionality. Disabling personalisation definitely makes sense from a privacy perspective, but it could significantly dent voice recognition accuracy and the usefulness of certain OS features like Cortana. On the other hand, there aren’t many good reasons for keeping your advertising tracker ID turned on.

Our full review of Windows 10 will give you a better idea of which features are worth keeping.

Oh, but there’s more.

After publishing this story, and with the helping hand of some of the Ars readership (thanks for the e-mails and comments!), we investigated things a little further. Even though the first portion of this guide will mostly stop Windows 10 from sending personal data back to Microsoft, there are still a few other mechanisms and services that continue to report back unless you dig into the registry and group policy editor.

The most troublesome issue seems to be the «Feedback options» drop-down, which cannot be fully disabled. You can set it to «Basic Health and Performance,» which is probably anonymised enough that you don’t need to worry, but turning it off completely is difficult. On Enterprise and Server versions of Windows 10, open up the group policy editor ( gpedit.msc ) and navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Data Collection. Enable the policy, then set the value to «0 — Off.» You will note that Windows 10 Home and Professional users cannot turn telemetry off entirely; they can only set it to «Basic.»

Another feature that you might want to disable is Windows 10’s BitTorrent-like update sharing: by default, your Windows 10 PC will upload Windows update files to other PCs on the Internet, peer-to-peer style. Open the Settings app and navigate to Update & Security > Windows Update > Advanced Options > Choose how updates are delivered. From here, you can disable this feature fully, or restrict it to just other PCs on the LAN.

Unlike Windows 8 Home, Windows 10 Home comes with full-disk BitLocker encryption (hooray!). Oddly, though, you must use a Microsoft account if you want to enable BitLocker in Windows 10 Home, and your recovery key (which will decrypt your whole drive) is uploaded to Microsoft’s servers. Windows 10 Pro doesn’t have this restriction: you can use BitLocker with a local account and not upload your key to the cloud.

Finally, it’s worth pointing out that these are just the visible config flags; without some packet-level analysis, it’s hard to say exactly what data is being sent back to Microsoft, and by which service. As one commenter pointed out, even after they disabled Cortana and turned off a bunch of privacy-related settings, the search box still seemed to be sending keystroke data back to Microsoft.