A tool for disabling Windows Telemetry (at least part of it) on Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10.
Version 1.2.1
Copyright (c) 2017-2020 Davis Mosenkovs
There already are several instructions available for disabling Telemetry on Windows. However this is probably the first easy to use script for this purpose.
Use of this script should be simple enough for average users and this script can be easily verified by IT professionals (to understand how it works and ensure there is nothing malicious in it).
The script can be downloaded (after reading and accepting LICENSE) from
this GitHub repository (e.g. Releases
section). After downloading (and extracting) file Telemetry-Kill-Script.cmd it
must be run with Administrator rights (by right clicking on it and selecting
Run as Administrator).
Most likely this script will have to be used again each time when Windows Update updates Telemetry related files and/or service.
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