Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Unlike Linux, Windows isn’t an OS that’s exactly known for its privacy protection. Your data is electronic currency for ad-brokers and is being collected at alarming rates. While you can’t completely stop all data collection on Windows, there are things you can do to have a modicum of privacy on the OS. So, there are specific features I always disable to improve privacy on Windows.
What you will learn:
1. Diagnostics & Feedback (Telemetry)
a. How to Prevent sharing optional telemetry data
b. How to disable optional diagnostics and feedback collected by Microsoft
c. How you can opt out of sending any optional data
d. How to disable diagnostics, inking and typing, and tailored experiences from a single section in the settings
e. How to turn off all three types of data collection
2. Disable Your Advertising ID
a. How to Stop targeted advertising to Improve Privacy on Windows
b. How to stop activity tracking across services and apps to serve up more relevant ads based on what you do
c. How to toggle off the Advertising ID option
3. Block App Permissions
a. How to to block certain app access to your activity, location, and devices on your PC
b. How you can stop websites from accessing your laptop’s webcam
c. How to block app access to my activity through app permissions in settings
d. How to turn off the “Let apps access your microphone” switch to disable access for all of them
4. Disable Location Data to Improve Privacy on Windows
a. How to disable location data being enabled by default on Windows
b. How to toggle off the Location services slider
c. How to disable location for all apps or do it piecemeal by choosing which apps you do or don’t want to have location access
5. Always Change These Settings to Improve Privacy on Windows
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Unlike Linux, Windows isn’t an OS that’s exactly known for its privacy protection. Your data is electronic currency for ad-brokers and is being collected at alarming rates. While you can’t completely stop all data collection on Windows, there are things you can do to have a modicum of privacy on the OS. So, there are specific features I always disable to improve privacy on Windows.
What you will learn:
1. Diagnostics & Feedback (Telemetry)
a. How to Prevent sharing optional telemetry data
b. How to disable optional diagnostics and feedback collected by Microsoft
c. How you can opt out of sending any optional data
d. How to disable diagnostics, inking and typing, and tailored experiences from a single section in the settings
e. How to turn off all three types of data collection
2. Disable Your Advertising ID
a. How to Stop targeted advertising to Improve Privacy on Windows
b. How to stop activity tracking across services and apps to serve up more relevant ads based on what you do
c. How to toggle off the Advertising ID option
3. Block App Permissions
a. How to to block certain app access to your activity, location, and devices on your PC
b. How you can stop websites from accessing your laptop’s webcam
c. How to block app access to my activity through app permissions in settings
d. How to turn off the “Let apps access your microphone” switch to disable access for all of them
4. Disable Location Data to Improve Privacy on Windows
a. How to disable location data being enabled by default on Windows
b. How to toggle off the Location services slider
c. How to disable location for all apps or do it piecemeal by choosing which apps you do or don’t want to have location access
5. Always Change These Settings to Improve Privacy on Windows
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🌍 Try Opera One (Multigeo): nefabop.com/6-11g1fd-c1hm-gv5u-j5ma
💸 Every install supports COMPUTER EVERYWHERE — thank you!
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![Heres How You Can Customize Linux Desktop for Halloween [Dot Files Included]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uouAd1Yi-o8/mqdefault.jpg "Heres How You Can Customize Linux Desktop for Halloween [Dot Files Included]
Forget pumpkin carving. This year, We will carved out a haunted Hyprland setup straight from the underworld of Arch Linux 👻
What you will learn:
1. How to have a Halloween-inspired dark, spooky makeover with Hyprland
2. Step 1: Install Hyprland and necessary packages
a. How to install all the essential Hyprland packages to get the system up and running
b. How to install Hyprland and necessary packages
c. How to install other utility packages
3. Step 2: Install and enable display manager
a. How to install SDDM package
b. How to enable the display manager on boot time
4. Step 3: Install other utility packages
a. How to open a terminal in Hyprland
b. How to install theme packages
c. How to install theme managers
5. Step 4: Download custom Hyprland dot files
a. How to extract the archive file
6. Step 5: Copy wallpaper to directory
a. How to Copy the images in the wallpapers folder to a directory called ~/Pictures/Wallpapers
7. Step 6: Download GTK theme, icons and fonts
a. How to Download the Everforest GTK theme dark borderless macOS buttons
b. How to Download Dominus Funeral icon theme dark style
c. How to Download the Creepster font from Google Fonts website
8. Step 7: Install other nerd fonts
a. How to download and install Firacode Mono Nerd Font and Caskaydia Nerd font, Font awesome free desktop fonts and JetBrains Mono
9. Step 8: Copy and paste config files
a. How to copy Waybar panel configs and styles, Application launcher config, Customized dunst notification system and Customized starship prompt to ~/.config folder
10. Step 9: Replace Hyprland config
a. How to exchange the content of the hyprland.conf in your system with the customized content
11. Step 10: Paste hyprlock and hyprpaper configs
a. How to copy the hyprlock.conf and hyprpaper.conf file to ~/.config/hypr directory
12. Step 11: Change themes
a. How to Open the NWG-Look app and set the GTK theme and font (Creepster font) for GTK apps
b. How to change icon theme
13. Step 12: Set Starship and aliases
a. How to enable Starship prompt
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