W10Privacy is certainly no programming masterpiece, but meets my envisaged purpose.

The program will be expanded gradually, if possible and available, with the corresponding Windows 8.1 features in the future. The primary focus is on settings for Windows 10 and its apps (for example the new browser 'Edge'). The program should therefore be a help, to display the available settings relatively clearly and to set the desired options if necessary. Microsoft generously enables everybody to change the concerning settings, but hides them in countless menus, where a normal user does not want to search for! This possible problem has now been defused so that it should no longer occur in the future.The by default highly questionable set options concerning privacy and data protection in Windows 10 brought me to the idea for the development of this little program. In the case of two users, this resulted in W10Privacy opening an almost infinite number of browser windows that displayed the donation link as a result of the interaction of the virus scanner. Virus scanner - the never ending story: Depending on the virus scanner used, it can happen that the W10Privavacy program start is massively hampered. W10Privacy has a built-in update checker and a handful of user settings as well. This program however does offer a save, save as and load options so you can backup and import or export your settings anytime. Must run as administrator.Īlso, other similar apps don’t always have a back or set a restore point making them a bit scary. Red - Restricted - think of this as geek mode. Yellow - Conditionally recommended - probably the best bet but look over the choices. Green - Recommended - this is a conservative mode. While the design is very simple, there are also 3 colors so that you can easily spot these 3 settings: Of course, this means that it might take you a bit longer to go through your choices.įor those who don’t want to go into detail you can choose from 3 predefined settings. While there are a lot of Windows 10 privacy tools out there, many of them lack the detail this program has. It also allows importing and exporting of your changes. W10Privacy can display common Windows 10 security settings that can be activated as well as deactivated within the program.

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