Disabling Windows Compatability Telemetry

Anonymous
2015-09-23T22:34:38+00:00

Does anybody know how to stop the Windows Compatability Telemetry (CompatTelRunner.exe) from starting? It causes extremely high disk usage which results in large performance issues.

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Performance and system failures

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-02-08T18:27:30+00:00

    This is a travesty!

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    I guarantee this comment gets scrubbed.  But I PRAY that before it does, it helps some other poor sucker.

    No, it won't get scrubbed. They never do that. At first I thought it was because they're being tolerant. Then I realized they simply, absolutely, unequivocally don't care.

    This is a travesty!

    (...)

    I guarantee this comment gets scrubbed.  But I PRAY that before it does, it helps some other poor sucker.

    No, it won't get scrubbed. They never do that. At first I thought it was because they're being tolerant. Then I realized they simply, absolutely, unequivocally don't care.

    Sorta like when I called up Microsoft Support, asked them a question, then they hung up on me.

    To be fair, my called was shunted to somewhere in India, and power transformer probably just blew up on the pole outside the *office*.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-02-07T23:04:56+00:00

    That's a great idea. I'll do that next time windows reinstalls compattelrunner.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-02-07T22:55:04+00:00

    I replied 4 posts back with a method that will probably fix this, you have to deny permisions rether than just delete it.

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-02-07T22:46:49+00:00

    I have tried this and it worked for me until the next microsoft update which put it back!!!!!!!

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  5. Anonymous
    2017-02-07T22:41:10+00:00

    No, simply deny the system permission to run it or modify it. Believe it or not windows respects permissions as far as I've seen, even though they are enforce by windows itself.

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