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Windows 10 is one of the most intelligent operating systems ever made, but this intelligence comes only with the huge amounts of data collected from your computer. This collected data makes services like Cortana work efficiently on your computer and provide you suggestions and solutions based upon your computer usage. But in any scenario no user would like to allow Windows 10 to collect some personal and private data, this is usually the personal preference. But by default Windows 10 is supposed to collect data that some users may not want to share even though it gets used in an aggregated form. Undoubtedly, you can manually disable them but most users are not aware of these settings.
AntiSpy for Windows 10
Ashampoo AntiSpy that brings all such settings in one place and lets you configure them on a click of a button. Using this tool you can configure some privacy settings and also prevent Windows 10 from collecting and sending diagnostics as well as other data. AntiSpy is exclusively designed for Windows 10 and will not work with any older versions of Windows.
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Here is the list and overview of settings that can be disabled/enabled using AntiSpy:
General
Let apps use my advertising ID for experience across apps
Turn on SmartScreen Filter to check web content (URLs)
Let websites provide locally relevant content by accessing my language list
Send Microsoft info about how I write to help us improve typing and writing in the future
Wifi Sense
Enabled Notifications
Automatic driver update
Biometrics
Location
Location for this device
Global location features are enabled
Camera
Let apps use my camera
App Connector is allowed to use your camera
Microsoft Edge is allowed to use your camera
One Note is allowed to use your camera
Microphone
Let apps use my microphone
Microsoft Edge is allowed to use the microphone
Windows Voice Recorder is allowed to use the microphone
Xbox apps are allowed to use the microphone
Windows and Cortana
Speech, inking and typing (Windows and Cortana)
Cortana
Microsoft Application Telemetry
Microsoft Inventory Service
Account Info
Let apps access my name, picture and other account info
Contacts
The App Connector is allowed to access your contacts
The Mail and Calendar app is allowed to access your contacts
Windows Shell Experience is allowed to access your contacts
Calendar
Let apps access my calendar
App Connector can access my calendar
Mail and Calendar app can access my calendar
Message
Let apps read or send message (text or MMS)
Radios
Let apps use radio (i.e. Bluetooth) to send and receive data
Others
Let your apps automatically share and sync info with wireless devices
Let apps use Cruzer Force
Cruzer Force apps Microsoft Phone Companion
Lock Screen Camera
Handwriting data sharing
Microsoft One Drive
Sensors
Microsoft steps recorder for error reporting
Windows Customer Experience Improvement program logging
Windows Update sharing
Do Nor Track in Microsoft Edge
The list is pretty long and these all features/settings are covered under this tool. AntiSpy is straightforward to use, you just need to click the toggle button corresponding to the setting to enable/disable it. Overall the tool is good and worth downloading but we do hope they will clear up the typos soonest For instance, writing has been misspelled as wrinting.
Click here (http://www.ashampoo.com/en/usd/pde/1004/security-software/Antispy-for-Windows-10) to download Ashampoo Antispy.
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