Disabling Telemetry For Win 8.1

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Thought I’d give it a go & got hung up on a thing or two.  Here goes the bonehead illustration.

Following the instructions by abbodi86.
https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/2000012-neutralize-telemetry-sustain-win-7-8-1-monthly-rollup-model/

1. Ran w10tel.cmd.bat.  No issue.
2. Diagnostics tracking service was not listed on services list.  After rebooting & rechecking, this is still not listed.  See Image 01 – Diagnostics Tracking Service not listed (image link – https://imgur.com/a/8MGz6eQ).
3. WMI AutoLogger-Diagtrack-Listener
~~a. Event Trace Sessions, right-click on “AutoLogger-Diagtrack-Listener,” stopped & deleted.
~~b. Startup Event Trace Sessions, disable AITEventLog.  Misread disable & accidentally deleted.  Am I hosed?
~~c. Disable SQMLogger.  Thankfully it wouldn’t delete & is now disabled.
4. Disable Compatibility Appraiser tasks (Task Scheduler Library > Microsoft > Windows)
~~a. Application Experience/disable all tasks. No MS compatability appaiser listed.  Just StartupApp Task which was deleted & the directory is now empty.   This is where I’m stumped.  After rebooting & rechecking, this is still not listed.  Image 02 – Application Experience tasks list (image link – https://imgur.com/a/8MGz6eQ).
~~b. Do the same with CEIP tasks.  In all the back & forth with composing this message I can’t remember if I actually did this or not.  At any rate, the directory is empty.

Maybe I’m actually alright & not as gooped up as I’m thinking I am.  Any help would be most appreciated.

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Second dilemma regarding GoneToPlaid post image #1948293:

Active Tasks:
ProgramDataUpdater
Microsoft Compatability Appraiser

In trying to check these I couldn’t find the list on my machine.  How do I do this?

Win 8.1 (home & pro) Group B, W10/11 Avoider, Linux Dabbler

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Win R
taskschd.msc
Enter

Click the small triangle on the left to expand the tree.
Navigate to (expand the tree): Task Scheduler Library > Microsoft > Windows > Application Experience.
In the middle pane you will see the tasks.

cheers, Paul

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Great Paul, thanks.  It occurred to me that the emptiness of the Application Exerience is what threw me.  Guess that’s a good thing to a degree.

Diagnostics tracking service was not listed on services list.  Maybe that’s a good thing too.  The uncertainty has me wondering & I’m hoping it’s OK.

Still not sure about the missing AITEventLog.  Is that an issue or can I forget about it?

Also, the missing compatability apprasier.  How about that?

Win 8.1 (home & pro) Group B, W10/11 Avoider, Linux Dabbler

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I disabled and removed the Diagtrack Service completely to make it more difficult for MS to re-activate telemetry on SMQR patching. Have had no side effects on this since early 2018 on Win 8.1 Pro x64 on three devices. I always check for the settings post patch install to find that settings remain the same prior to patching on SMQR. SFC reports no violations, however,  if you need to do a DISM Restore health, it’ll throw it back in on the default setting.

AITEventlog: have this disabled and if it’s missing I’m sure it’s disabled.

Compatibility Appraiser: have this disabled also, if it’s missing I’m sure it’s disabled.

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At MicroFix post #1974580 – whew, thanks fella, that’s what I was hoping would be the case.  Not knowing for sure was troubling, so thanks for clearing that up for me.  Now I can limp along a while longer. 

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You may also be interested in another recent post for Win8.1 regarding using your firewall to stop more undesirable snooping or reporting back to HQ over here

I plan to keep win8.1 until 2023 and do my utmost to keep it in good shape. I must be doing something right..so far anyway! and being under 5% of the current marketshare is an insignificant MS gem. Credit where credit is due, happily getting here warrants thanks to Noel Carboni, ch100, abbodi86, MrBrian and PKCano from post discussions a few of years back.

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