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Windows 7 DiagTrack. It’s Ba-ack!

October 24, 2016, 12:52(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

The Windows 7 Diagnostics Tracking Service is back and uninstallable if you want to keep your system patched.
I’ve updated my post on this: Windows 7 Diagnostics Tracking Service

Tagged With: Windows 7

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Comments

  1. 7 says

    October 24, 2016, 14:30(EDT) at 14:30

    What do you recommend? Turn off updates completely?

    • Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound) says

      October 24, 2016, 15:49(EDT) at 15:49

      Only a **** would stop updating their PC.
      So you can:
      1 – Live with it.
      2 – Tweak it.
      3 – or
      Mint
      Debian
      Ubuntu
      openSUSE
      elementary
      Manjaro
      Fedora
      Zorin
      CentOS
      Arch
      deepin
      Ubuntu MATE
      PCLinuxOS
      Mageia
      Antergos
      Slackware
      etc…

    • radosuaf says

      February 13, 2017, 07:31(EST) at 07:31

      Install Security-only updates. Remember, these are not cumulative and you have to install them manually (you won’t find them in WU), so you have to download and install each one by one, starting from October:
      https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/22801/windows-7-sp1-and-windows-server-2008-r2-sp1-update-history

  2. Bob Campbell says

    October 24, 2016, 23:51(EDT) at 23:51

    I got so annoyed with Cortana running all the time I blocked it from accessing the internet (just for spite).
    Can this diagnostic program be blocked by the firewall?

    • Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound) says

      October 25, 2016, 06:25(EDT) at 06:25

      Please re-read the article.

  3. Richard says

    January 16, 2017, 10:15(EST) at 10:15

    Thanks for the information, greetings from Europe Czech Republic.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Republic

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