Since its launch, more than 4 years ago, one of the things that has bothered Windows 10 users the most is the lack of privacy. The Microsoft operating system collects operating system usage data and sends it to Microsoft. And although this data is anonymous, the truth is that the lack of control over what Windows 10 collects or does not collect bothers users quite a bit. Luckily, it is possible to improve the privacy of Windows 10 thanks to tools like Debotnet.
Debotnet is a simple, completely free program whose main purpose is to allow us to configure Windows 10 to achieve the highest level of privacy possible. Thanks to this program we will be able to apply up to 74 changes in the system , many of them are even hidden in the operating system, to allow us to use the computer much more privately.
The main features offered by this program are:
- Disable telemetry of the operating system.
- Disable some online features that can share data with Microsoft.
- It allows users to choose which functions they want to deactivate and which not.
- The tool works through scripts. And the scripts are updated directly on GitHub.
- Very simple interface to use and with descriptions of what each function does.
- Portable. It does not need installation or leave traces on the PC.
As we have said, Debotnet is completely free and open source. This allows us to be sure that it does not hide anything strange that could harm Windows. And also know for sure what he does and what he does not do in the system.
To use this program, we must simply download it from the following link . Let’s see how it works.
How to improve the privacy of Windows 10 with Debotnet
Once we have downloaded the program (still in beta, and with very frequent updates) we decompress it and we will have it ready to use. The first thing we will see will be a window like the following.
As we can see, the program interface has no difficulty. On the left we will find the main program options:
- Run: to execute all the scripts that we have selected.
- Select: to choose the scripts that we want to apply to the operating system.
- Import: to add new custom scripts or downloaded from the Internet to the program.
In the central part we can see a list with all the scripts that we can find. Each of them applies a series of changes in the system to allow us to improve our privacy. And on the right we can see if it is a recommended script (changes that we can apply without problems) and a description of what it does.
We just have to review all the scripts of the program one by one, select the ones we want to apply to the system and that’s it.
Click on “Run” to execute all the selected tasks and that’s it. When the program finishes applying all these scripts, we will have our Windows 10 ready to run much more privately.
Of course, we recommend you to read calmly all the options that we are going to select and the notices that may appear to us. For example, if we check the option to disable Cortana along with some other functions, Windows Search may stop working on our PC. The same can happen with other combinations of scripts. We must be careful with the changes we apply. But if we read, we will not have problems.
And if in addition to improving the privacy of Windows you want to leave your hard drives clean, we recommend you take a look at CleanmgrPlus . This program is from the same developers and is one of the best alternatives to Ccleaner and Microsoft disk cleaning software.