Windows 10 aims to make your daily work as easy and hassle-free as possible. This enhanced comfort is to be taken with a grain of salt though: Windows 10 quite freely shares your personal data with Microsoft and certain apps. Some services protocol your entire keyboard entries, share your WLAN access data with your facebook contacts or connect your computer without asking permission to a public and potentially unprotected network. While this means that you and your contacts do not have to grapple with complicated WLAN passwords, it also poses a significant security risk. Windows 10 lets you deactivate most of the privacy endangering features manually, but not all in one place, and not especially easy to find. O&O Software's freeware O&O ShutUp10 means you have full control over which comfort functions under Windows 10 you wish to use, and you decide when the passing on of your data goes too far. Using a very simple interface, you decide how Windows 10 should respect your privacy by making recommendations and giving tips for which unwanted functions should be deactivated. And should you change your mind later on, e.g. giving the personal assisstant Cortana a try, all changes can be reverted with a single click.
What is new in this release:
- New Setting: Disable saving SMS messages to the cloud
- New Setting: Disable network access for OneDrive before log-in
- New Setting: Disable Updates for voice recognition and synthesis
- New Setting: Disable Cloud Search form Cortana
- Bugfix implemented for Exception 0x80004003 when starting under Windows 10 Build 10240
- Available in German, English, French, Italian and Russian.
What is new in version 1.4.1388:
Advanced error management when creating System Restore Points. Problems with some systems when creating System Restore Points. Available in English, German, French, Italian and Russian.
Requirements:
Windows 10
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