Win.Privacy Helps Block Info Collecting Windows Services

By Timothy Tibbetts

Win.Privacy is a small tool designed to block some of the information collecting Windows services keeping them in check. Bear in mind that it is in Beta, and the author is actively adding more services, but they are attentive to suggestions, etc.

Win.Privacy's user interface is minimalistic making it very simple for anyone to use. All that you need to do is click the Fix Privacy Issues button, and it goes ahead and blocks the windows services. Once that action has completed, you can click the Open Hosts File button to see what Win.Privacy has altered. Now this isn't going to make you 100% secure from Microsoft viewing your personal information, but it does provide you with an added amount of protection.

As this tool progresses through the development process more and more, Windows services that are potentially spying on you will get added.

During our testing of Win.Privacy, we did not find an option to create a restore point so if for whatever reason you want to revert to the previous configuration state it will need to be manually performed. That said, since adding this useful tool to the MajorGeeks family of listings the author has heeded the suggestion we made here and added restore point creation to Win.Privacy. Good stuff.

They do accept donations and if the program has helped you then why not return the favor?

Download @ https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/win_privacy.html