O n your Windows PC, there's a lot happening behind the scenes that you rarely notice. Processes are running, drivers are ...

Microsoft has expanded its diagnostic data collection with Windows 10, making mandatory what had been a voluntary telemetry program. Windows 10 includes a telemetry and diagnostics service that cannot ...

An officially confirmed vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Support Diagnostic Tool can allow hackers to run remote code and take over a targeted Windows computer. Known as CVE-2022-30190 in ...

Earlier this week, hints of new privacy tools were spotted in recent Windows 10 Insider builds, pointing to a bid to be more transparent with the types of data Microsoft collects. Now, Microsoft has ...

“Microsoft Monday" is a weekly column that focuses on all things Microsoft. This week, Microsoft Monday includes details about the PlayFab acquisition, a patch for Intel’s Spectre firmware update, a ...

If the Send optional diagnostic data is not turning off, there could be an organizational level configuration at play here.

Microsoft says it doesn’t keep track of your viewing and listening habits, but rather how well those video and audio files play on your device. Still, as the list shows, Microsoft keeps quite a bit of ...

We now know the tradeoff for free Windows 10: Microsoft wants data about what you do with your device. But you don’t have to send everything you do back to Redmond. These features comprised the ...

As mentioned earlier, App Diagnostics extract information about apps running on your computer to make them work better on your computer. But Microsoft is selective about the kind of information they ...

Here are the steps to review, manage, and delete diagnostic data that Microsoft collected about your device with new settings included with the Windows 10 April 2018 Update. When you purchase through ...

Microsoft on Wednesday announced the "general availability" commercial release of "Windows diagnostic data processor configuration," a possible data privacy or data compliance assurance capability for ...

Smith Micro's CheckIt Diagnostics gives you an A-to-Z look at your system's components, but not much assistance for the problems the program reports. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace ...