Wiresharking Win10
Another person weighed in on the issue. I’m really not seeing much new info but it is an interesting read.
“Based on my tests, Windows 10 certainly is receiving telemetry data from my PC, but we knew that already. It’s also easy to counter the FUD in some reports. In one hour there were only 751 packets sent to any Microsoft address (including any Azure, Skype or Akamai CDN edge server), for around 222KB of data. Of those packets only 182 contained data, with 134KB transferred to Microsoft. In two hours there were only 1586 packets, with 382 containing data, and 262KB of data transferred…”
He makes references to the amount of data being small which I find odd. Compressed data…
I will use my motherboard manual as an example. It is 79 pages. Below I compressed the file. I also copied the text into notepad. Then I compressed it. All the text data in that file came out to 28kb compressed. Point being, small files can contain a TON of data.
“Without unencrypting the telemetry packets Microsoft receives, we’re not going to know exactly what data it receives. But they’re small and relatively infrequent, so are unlikely to be packed with your personal data.”
Why is it “unlikely”?
Default Apps Reset?
4 days ago reader Don H. said his defualt app preferences got reset. Apparently he isn’t the only one with that issue:
Updategate: Windows 10 is resetting default apps back to Microsoft stock
New Nvidia Drivers
Nvidia Geforce Game Ready 361.91 WHQL Driver released. Download
“Learn more about how to get the optimal experience for ARMA 3, Street Fighter V, Monster Hunter Online, and HITMAN (Beta)”
Backup Your Backups
Reader Paul pointed me to an article that discusses where an Adobe Creative Cloud update deleted folks backups. Y’all might find the cloud convenient but don’t trust your data to someone else. Backup your backups!
Now I gotta sign off while I still have an internet connection!