![]() "Basic" sends Microsoft "only info about your device, its settings and capabilities, and whether it is performing properly." "Full" sends all that plus "info about the websites you browse and how you use apps and features" - which sound a lot like Activity History cloud syncing.īut it's probably not the same thing. The telemetry data - how your machine is running, and so forth - is controlled by a different Settings menu, Settings > Privacy > Diagnostics and Feedback. Hoffman points out that Windows 10 still sends Microsoft's servers telemetry data about your machine whether or not you've disabled Activity History collection in Settings. MORE: Windows 10 Will Show You Everything Microsoft Has on You So what's going on? We don't know for sure, but Chris Hoffman at How-To Geek thinks the answer is both simple and stupid: The Windows 10 Settings Activity History isn't the same as the online Privacy Dashboard Activity History. He noted that his Activity History remained in the online Privacy Dashboard even after he pressed the "Clear Activity History" button in his machine's Settings. Over at our sister site TechRadar, Darren Allan was able to reproduce this issue. That's not something we recommend your average Windows user do. ![]() Missing Potato wrote that he was only able to stop this by using online tools to edit a Windows Registry key. Yet this past weekend, Reddit user "a_potato_is_missing" noticed that even though he (or possibly she) had unchecked both boxes on his machine's settings, he could still sign into his Microsoft account online, navigate to the Privacy Dashboard (opens in new tab), click the tab marked, yep, "Activity History," and see that he'd been running Microsoft Office, Forza Horizon 4 and Counter-Strike Global Offensive. To seal the deal, they can also uncheck the neighboring box marked "Let Windows collect my activity from this PC", which seems to be checked on by default. ![]() Naturally, some people find this intrusive, and they make sure that the box marked "Let Windows sync my activities from this PC to the cloud" is unchecked under Settings > Privacy > Activity History.
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