Windows 10 aims to make your daily work as easy and hassle-free as possible. This enhanced comfort is to be taken with a pinch of salt though: Windows 10 quite freely shares your personal data with Microsoft and certain apps. Some services protocol your entire keyboard entries, share your WLAN access data with your Facebook contacts or connect your computer without asking permission to a public – and potentially unprotected – network. While this means that you and your contacts do not have to grapple with complicated WLAN passwords, it also poses a significant security risk.
Windows 10 lets you deactivate most of the privacy endangering features manually, but not all in one place, and not especially easy to find.
Protect your privacy in Windows 10 – Free!
O&O Software’s freeware O&O ShutUp10 means you have full control over which comfort functions under Windows 10 you wish to use, and you decide when the passing on of your data goes too far. Using a very simple interface, you decide how Windows 10 should respect your privacy by making recommendations and giving tips for which unwanted functions should be deactivated. And should you change your mind later on, e.g. giving the personal assistant Cortana a try, all changes can be reverted with a single click.
New in Version 1.4.1387
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Settings:
- Improved support for certain Windows 10 OEM Versions
- Factory settings totally revised
- Setting “Do not show user ID on lock screen” was removed as some users had problems accessing their system
- Setting “Do not display last users on lock screen” was removed as some users had problems accessing their system
- Dialogue boxes were defective in high contrast mode
- Crash when clicking links where Google Chrome is set as the standard browser
- Notifications that some settings are managed by the organisation did not disappear after applying factory settings
- Language will be selected automatically based on the Windows setting
Bug fixes:
Available in German, English, French, Italian, and Russian:
Download now – no install, no crapware
Download O&O ShutUp10 free from our Website. O&O ShutUp10 is entirely free (freeware) and does not have to be installed – it can be simply run directly and immediately on your PC (portable). And it will not install or download retrospectively unwanted or unnecessary software, like so many other programs do these days!
Decide for yourself how important your “comfort” is when weighed up with your privacy and how to protect it. O&O ShutUp10 presents you with all important settings in one location – you need no previous IT knowledge and there is no need to manually change the Windows 10 system settings.
