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Just when you thought it was gone! The Diagnostic Tracking Service Has been renamed to (Connected User Experience Telemetry) Microsoft finally went on record admitting that automatic spying within Windows 10 cannot be stopped. This sparked a lot of outrage and  it appeared Microsoft had done a sharp U-turn because the background service at the heart tracking ( the ‘Diagnostics Tracking Service’ aka ‘DiagTrack’ ) appeared to have been removed. Critics celebrated and it was another well deserved pat on the back for Microsoft. Well what Microsoft really did was just renamed DiagTrack . It is now called the ‘Connected User Experiences and Telemetry Service’ – which is both a) deliberately vague, and b) misleading (don’t ‘Connected User Experiences’ sound great). If you check Services after the last major update Windows 10 Build 1511, you will notice that the Diagnostics Tracking Service is gone. Well not really, It seems that Microsoft has renamed the service to (Connect

Disable OneDrive in Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 One-drive in Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 can be disabled through your computer's Local Group Policy Editor. This doesn't remove One-drive from your PC, but it stops it from syncing with the cloud or connecting with other apps, and removes it from the navigation pane in File Explorer. TIP Because disabling One-drive involves changing a Group Policy setting on your computer, it is disabled for everyone who uses that computer. If others use the computer, make sure they also want One-drive disabled. Press (Windows key) + R to open the  Run  box. Type gpedit.msc and click OK. In the Local Group Policy Editor, in the folder list under Local Computer Policy, navigate the folders to Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components >OneDrive. NOTE If you have any files or data in One-drive, you will not lose them if you disable or uninstall One-drive o