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
    2016-12-01T07:51:51+00:00

    Just a heads up, they changed the display name from Diagnostics Tracking Service to Connected User Experiences and Telemetry. The real name is still diagtrack in PowerShell and the services tab under Task Manager though. I guess they thought people wouldn't like to see "Tracking Service" running on their PC, so they made it go incognito.

    Thank you! this fixed it for me

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-11-30T17:14:12+00:00

    Hi Nancy,

    To disable Windows Compatibility Telemetry, kindly follow these steps:

    1. On the s earch box, type services and press Enter to open the Services desktop app.
    2. Stop the Diagnostics Tracking Service and change the Startup Type to Disabled.

    Additionally, you can use PowerShell to stop the Diagnostics Tracking Service and change the Startup Type to disabled. To do so, open PowerShell and run these commands:

    stop-service diagtrack

    set-service diagtrack -startuptype disabled

    Let us know how it works.

    Regards.

    Just a heads up, they changed the display name from Diagnostics Tracking Service to Connected User Experiences and Telemetry. The real name is still diagtrack in PowerShell and the services tab under Task Manager though. I guess they thought people wouldn't like to see "Tracking Service" running on their PC, so they made it go incognito.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-11-21T06:51:03+00:00

    I think we have finally found the problem.  It's simply Microsoft and their **** updates followed by a jungle of pointers to conflicting places that do not fix the problem.  These clowns are never going to issue a stable version of the OS.

    Solution: Save your files.  Wipe your drive, and install Linux.

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-11-16T16:06:03+00:00

    Hi Nancy,

    To disable Windows Compatibility Telemetry, kindly follow these steps:

    1. On the s earch box, type services and press Enter to open the Services desktop app.
    2. Stop the Diagnostics Tracking Service and change the Startup Type to Disabled.

    Additionally, you can use PowerShell to stop the Diagnostics Tracking Service and change the Startup Type to disabled. To do so, open PowerShell and run these commands:

    stop-service diagtrack

    set-service diagtrack -startuptype disabled

    Let us know how it works.

    Regards.

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