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Mike the HAM

I don’t like Microsoft, or any other big brother business, keeping records of my activities on the W3.

Anonymous

I totally get that. 🙂

Charles

I find it just clutters my screen and have found no need for it.

Andre

I simply don’t like the idea of someone else using my PC and being able to winkey + tab and seeing the last set of files I’ve opened. I can see the use for work productivity, but I wouldn’t dare keep this on at home. Thanks for the easy-to-follow tutorial.

Anonymous

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Just another person

Thanks for your article, I needed this because the timeline would still show the adult sites I visited after clearing my browsing history. So you are my personal hero for the day.

Anonymous

Happy to help. 😉

Annoyed User

It’s a severe privacy breach. I don’t know what possessed them to record, store, and transfer your activity all over the place. This is the last straw. Once this PC dies, I’m thru with Windows. Who in their right minds would want their computer activity stored on a companies server? Microsoft knows no one reads the terms of service, they probably covered their butts with a clause. “We are not required to maintain the privacy of your activity:”

Michel

I disabled the history because the Task View freezes each time I hit the win+tab key

Camilla

It takes up my battery life. I use my computer to study and take notes all day, so being able to disable this was a huge plus. Thank you!

vs

Here’s my typical procedure with any W10 computer:
Device manager>Network Adapters>Properties>Power Management> uncheck all boxes
Run Autoruns (by Sysinternals) as Administrator> logon uncheck all unnecessary
Run Ashampoo as Administrator > Deselect all
Run O&O Shutup 10 as Administrator > uncheck all but: Cortana (Cortana reset and disabled), Location Services (if needed), Windows Update ( 3 upper entries), Windows Explorer(Microsoft One Drive disabled), Windows Defender and SpyNet (Windows Defender disabled).
PC Settings disable all unnecessary.
Control Panel>Programs and Features>uninstall all outdated and unused programs.
Restart computer.
HTH
PS, when in Settings>System>Multitasking turn off Timeline and in Privacy turn off all.

Penguin223344

I’d like to be able to access MORE info about my activity (an apparently minority POV!).
I’m not good at keeping track of what I do in a day from hour to hour as I am doing it, so I often use my Chrome history to reconstruct WHAT I did yesterday and WHEN I was doing it. I’d like to do the same with Windows: see when, and for long, I was using Excel or Word or Quicken or my Kindle app and what file I was working on.
Timeline gets me halfway there–it tells me what apps and files I used on each day, but I’d realy like the times. Most anti-distraction or time-productivity apps that I’ve seen give only totals — 3 hours on Word,14 on Angry Birds, etc.
Does anyone know of any apps that do this (primarily for Windows desktop)?
Or is there a way to find this using the Windows computer management logs? I’ve poked around in Event Viewer but it’s too complicated for me to figure out. Is there a way to use Event Viewer and its various filters to accomplish what I’m trying to do? Thanks for any leads.

Rui Fernando Marques

it worked! thank you!

Whom it may concern

It’s helpful.

Thank’s for your work!

GG

this tutorial is very clear and useful, i could turn off this disturbing function now, thank you very much!

Phil

Non of M’softs business what I do. Great info – thanks.

stefan

Windows never worken never works and will never work. Just pretending it needs more resources, more powerfull PC, more powerfull processors in order to work…This is a lie !!!…No matter how powerfull a PC is – windows will never work properly !!!…Is build with the ideea that THEY MUST acces your files anytime, and they don’t care if you can acces YOUR files !!!…The reality is that windows is not an operating system is just a tool to spy on people in order to find more efficient methods to steal their money, kill them or to make them slaves under total control 24/7 and that is coming more sooner than you expect…I remember many years ago someone showed me how it looks a real operating system. Something smaller than windows 1000 times, needing 1000 times less resources and also 1000 times more powerfull, and completely private, but such an operating system is not allowed for simple people, is strictly forbiden.