Windows Privacy Tweaker is available for Windows Vista and later.In Outlook, you can define how the accessibility notifications and Accessibility Checker work. Put it all together and while other privacy tools offer more settings, Windows Privacy Tweaker’s portability, descriptions of some settings and system restore point integration are important pluses, and developer Phrozen Software is more trustworthy than most. And it might be convenient to enable everything in some situations, perhaps if a PC is behaving oddly and you want to restore the default privacy settings. 'Check all' and 'Uncheck all' buttons will enable or disable everything at once.ĭisabling everything is always going to be riskier, but if you’ve created a restore point then you should be able to recover from any problems. Checking the box to the left of any item will toggle it immediately. You don’t have to know what the 'Consolidator' task does, for instance - the program displays this: 'if the user has consented to participate in the Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program, this job collects and sends usage data to Microsoft.' Some, though not all items have descriptions, helping you understand what disabling them might mean. Disabled settings are displayed in green. Settings which are currently enabled are displayed in red, to highlight them as potentially dangerous. 'Services' lists Windows services, including Remote Registry and Remote Desktop 'Scheduler' lists Windows scheduled tasks relating to Microsoft’s Customer Experience Improvement Program, among others and 'Registry' has more general settings, such as controlling app access to your microphone.

Windows Privacy Tweaker organizes its settings into three categories.

Accept this and you should easily be able to undo your changes later

The program starts with an offer to create a System Restore Point when it loads.

Windows privacy tweaker