If you upgraded to 11 you're a complete moron. They literally took away the volume mixer to control the volume for each individual program and had to release an update to appease their retard fanboys. 10 has its own issues with privacy and switches being turned back on 'mysteriously' but at least the functionality wasn't a step backwards.
Disable "Send your device data to Microsoft" Oh shit you can't ... (Read the end user agreement, you have no rights when you use Microsoft products)
Turn off search suggestions, Disable all Cortana BS.
Do not use Edge or IE. Switch search engine away from bing. Duckduckgo.com is a good one. Do not login to the browser with microsoft account. Offline accounts with a password are more secure than cloud accounts.
Disable "Improve Inking and Typing Personalization" as this is their built in keyboard logger. All your key strokes are sent to Microsoft servers. (Updates and OS upgrades might turn this feature back on)
Disable and delete One Drive through the Registry. I have sand boxed one drive to watch it establish connections to Microsoft data centers pretty much on every continent except Antarctica. Microsoft no longer discloses data breaches. One Drive can be compared to a Rootkit. (Just like Google Play Store App)
Disable ALL usage reports.
Disable "Send Microsoft diagnostic and troubleshooting data"
Disable "Help improve Microsoft by submitting anonymous blah blah blah"
Microsoft gathers your information to ID and footprint your behavior and logs all key strokes. If you use any of their systems or software you are waiving your right to privacy and security. (End User Agreement)
It's the default on Window 11, btw, that "my documents" is not on your C drive but on your synced Microsoft OneDrive account.
laughs in linux
since 1996
sorely missed out on a lot of these "upgrades" apparently.
I love Linux. It's amazing to turn on your computer and have it only do things when you ask it to.
I have been using linux for over a decade without complaint.
Kali Linux (SEC OS Although I don't like the new kernel changes)
Parrot OS (pentest/defensive OS)
LinuxMint is good if you are coming from windows.
All Free, and they don't spy on everything you do. (Microsoft Inking, OneDrive, Usage Reports)
Pair this with ESR Firefox and The Ublock origin add-on and baaaaam, you are free again.
If you upgraded to 11 you're a complete moron. They literally took away the volume mixer to control the volume for each individual program and had to release an update to appease their retard fanboys. 10 has its own issues with privacy and switches being turned back on 'mysteriously' but at least the functionality wasn't a step backwards.
I didn't upgrade, my 8 year old HP went kaput and I bought a new HP.
I set OneDrive to not sync and then made a "my documents" folder on the C drive.
Disable "Send your device data to Microsoft" Oh shit you can't ... (Read the end user agreement, you have no rights when you use Microsoft products)
Turn off search suggestions, Disable all Cortana BS.
Do not use Edge or IE. Switch search engine away from bing. Duckduckgo.com is a good one. Do not login to the browser with microsoft account. Offline accounts with a password are more secure than cloud accounts.
Disable "Improve Inking and Typing Personalization" as this is their built in keyboard logger. All your key strokes are sent to Microsoft servers. (Updates and OS upgrades might turn this feature back on)
Disable and delete One Drive through the Registry. I have sand boxed one drive to watch it establish connections to Microsoft data centers pretty much on every continent except Antarctica. Microsoft no longer discloses data breaches. One Drive can be compared to a Rootkit. (Just like Google Play Store App)
Disable ALL usage reports.
Disable "Send Microsoft diagnostic and troubleshooting data"
Disable "Help improve Microsoft by submitting anonymous blah blah blah"
Microsoft gathers your information to ID and footprint your behavior and logs all key strokes. If you use any of their systems or software you are waiving your right to privacy and security. (End User Agreement)
DDG is useless. The only one worth using is Yandex.