Re:“Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script
by rasz_pl on Saturday January 07, 2017 @10:42PM
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This is interesting, because I just did the same thing and there is plenty of garbage flying around to various akamai hosts every 20-60 minutes.
Is your system volume license or retail?
Re:“Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script
by UnoriginalGuy on Saturday January 07, 2017 @11:36PM
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Retail. 10 Pro specifically.
Re:“Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script
by rasz_pl on Sunday January 08, 2017 @01:40AM
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Mine was activated as Win 7 upgrade to 10 during the Insider Program. Tested clean install in VM right now.
Maybe Microsoft tracks this and forces my in theory Retail copy to still act like some sort of guinea pig :/
Re:“Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script
by MrVitaliy on Saturday January 07, 2017 @03:56PM
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Fair enough. From what I recall, the traffic was going to telemetry servers not time sync. Next time I play with Windows I'll holdon to the capture logs for proof.
I think the other side effect from all those regedit hacks was issues with Windows updates. In the end, my machine got stuck at installing October patches, rebooting then failing at 99% applying the patch, rebooting again, rolling back the patch, rebooting, trying to install the patch again. The non-stop CPU usage and reboots made me quit Windows for awhile.
You said above:
> That's not true. Install and run wireshark then dial all you want, there will always be traffic every other minute or so to one of Redmond's servers from just idling.
I literally did exactly what you said. Shutdown all third party applications on a Windows 10 Pro machine, loaded Wireshark 2.2.3, filtered out all LAN traffic/broadcast traffic/etc and watched. Didn't see any traffic at all going to Microsoft nor anyone else, it is still running now and not a peep.
Now I have no doubt that if I waited long enough I would, since I have Windows Update enabled, use Microsoft for time synchronisation, and a handful of other things. But it definitely isn't "every other minute." I cannot reproduce that.