Posted on 08/07/2015 8:41:28 AM PDT by Enlightened1
About the Diagnostics Tracking service Helping the overall application experience The diagnostics tracking service collects diagnostics about functional issues on Windows systems that participate in the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP). CEIP reports do not contain contact information, such as your name, address, or telephone number. This means CEIP will not ask you to participate in surveys or to read junk email, and you will not be contacted in any other way.
For any released product with an option to participate in CEIP, you can select to start or stop participating at any time. Most programs make CEIP options available on the Help menu, although for some products, you might have to check settings, options, or preferences menus. Some pre-released products that are under development might require participation in CEIP to help ensure that the final release of the product improves frequently used features and solves common problems that exist in the pre-released software.
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So, if one just doesn’t install kb3068708, that should take care of it, correct?
Bugtracking.
That’s what it appears to be.
Exactly
ping
I still get occasional ‘critical updates’ even though I have autoupdate turned off.
Some of them cause me to have to resort to the System Restore to get the computer to run.
I’ve found that my restore points mysteriously disappear after “critical updates.”
I have occasionally have to revert to my most recent image backup.
I have my programs on the OS partition, but my data is on a separate partition (and I backup the data to USB drives), so it is not impacted by software conflicts.
When everything seems to be working, I hate getting notified of UPDATE/UPGRADE. They tend to create more problems than they resolve.
Yep, stopped installing updates to 7 some time ago. No issues either.
Thanks to ShadowAce for the ping!!
Yep. No tin foil hat required here.
I turn telemetry off on most of my Windows boxes (and Firefox etc.) because they're used for private/confidential work.
Of course, one could argue that I have no knowledge of whether those opt-out checkboxes actually do anything....
I’m still not sure if I should delete the “Windows Upgrade” of Win10 (even if I do get it for free).
It may be wonderful, but I’m very happy with Win7; and for my uses, I don’t really need Win10.
I’ll see what happens when I log in tomorrow.
You’ve got a year to decide. It’s only been a week. Since you like Win7 as-is, it sounds to me like you would be better off waiting. If you learn that there’s something in Win 10 you simply must have, you can always upgrade later for free (until July 2016).
Okay .. that’s great. I’ll wait.
Do you know if any of the office supply companies are offering a chance to see Win10 on a computer .. I know they did it before .. but I haven’t heard anything this time.
Drill into system restore and see how much space is allocated to it. Might not be enough so you are getting restore points deleted. These restore points might take up a gigabyte or so..... so act accordingly.
I have Windoze 7 and 8 computers. The only reason I see to update to Windows 10 is because MS will updating (for security) it lots longer. NO I have not updated any computer to Windows 10. Maybe in a few months.
You can very easily opt-out of CEIP. This is not something that’s turned on by default. They’re simply turning it on... by default. You can still opt-out.
In Windows 8.1, click Start and type “Customer Experience.” The first link should be to change your customer experience improvement program settings. Turn it off, you’re good to go.
I just don’t care the way Microsoft has been doing business post Windows 7.
I’m hoping they listen to their customers. If not, then I will be jumping over to Apple early next year.
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