There's a free tool called ShutUp10 that makes this process very fast. It even warns you if Windows reverts a setting you changed - which happens all the time.
Wow.... looks like 100+ individual settings to toggle. It gathers them all together, but when I'm going through the configuration, I'm not only modifying the telemetry/privacy stuff but other preferences too, so it might not save all that much time.
(That UI is a little reminiscent of the Group Policy Editor, although I think the extra layer of ambiguous "slider buttons" make it even more confusing at first glance --- e.g. if the "App access to camera disabled" setting is red, does that mean the setting is not applied and apps can access the camera, or does the red mean the camera access is disabled? A "[*] Allow app access to camera" checkbox would be far more straightforward. That said, gpedit.msc's mix of enable-to-disable and disable-to-enable isn't much better either --- it's almost as if they are trying to mislead you.)
It's true that there are a lot of choices, but they are grouped into safe/risky/unsafe categories. I always just tell it to auto-flip the safe ones, and that does everything I want.
> It even warns you if Windows reverts a setting you changed - which happens all the time.
New dark pattern from Microsoft. One of the reasons to get off the platform forever. If settings change themselves they shouldn’t call themselves settings
Wow.... looks like 100+ individual settings to toggle. It gathers them all together, but when I'm going through the configuration, I'm not only modifying the telemetry/privacy stuff but other preferences too, so it might not save all that much time.
(That UI is a little reminiscent of the Group Policy Editor, although I think the extra layer of ambiguous "slider buttons" make it even more confusing at first glance --- e.g. if the "App access to camera disabled" setting is red, does that mean the setting is not applied and apps can access the camera, or does the red mean the camera access is disabled? A "[*] Allow app access to camera" checkbox would be far more straightforward. That said, gpedit.msc's mix of enable-to-disable and disable-to-enable isn't much better either --- it's almost as if they are trying to mislead you.)