Disabling Windows Compatability Telemetry

I wonder why instead of creating a bunch of non-removable, non-stoppable spying tools eating our CPU and RAM, Microsoft doesn't go and check the pile of forums and blogs where people complain about lots of bad decisions Microsoft took for their OS's, tools and GUIs.

Microsoft please, take note of a few: many of us hate giant Ribbon toolbars, hate new Start menu, hate new Windows Update system, hate lose our work with unexpected reboots, hate touchpad shortcuts, battery drains after W10 install, new Control Panel, Cortana.......

MS please, throw your telemetry tools away, go and search those complaints ONLINE (not in our computers!) and READ READ READ!

After years of lurking around these forums for troubleshooting help, this issue finally compelled me to make a post. I just spent 15 minutes waiting for Chrome to open because this process was busy burning my hard drive to the ground. For anyone looking for a solution, disable the Microsoft Compatibility Appraiser immediately, it brought me from 100% disk usage down to 3% usage almost instantly.

Microsoft, issues like this are exactly the reason I decided to dual-boot Linux a few months ago. I actually loved Windows 10 when it was first released, it was a great improvement from Windows 8 in almost every way and I actually prefer the UI to Windows 7. I participated in the beta and eventually installed it on most machines in my house because I was happy with how things were going. All that has changed, however, after consistently botched updates, unstoppable forced reboots, and extremely hostile privacy/tracking policies. At this point, the only reason I'm booting into Windows is for gaming purposes, I've even gone out of my way to find Linux-based alternatives to my work tools so I don't have to worry about booting into Windows on a regular basis. If these issues are addressed down the road I'll be happy to come back to Windows as my one and only OS, it does have everything I need in one place, after all, but right now it's too much of a liability to be trusted for anything beyond gaming and goofing around on the internet.

 it may come as a huge surprise to them to find out people just want to turn up, switch it on and do a days work! I do not believe I should have to dedicate more of my time trying to work out how to disable the crap ware so I can do a days work than I actually spend doing the work. And when you finally make some progress they do an update that takes all the machines down for 4 hours and put it all back again.

I see many, many "Helpful" votes in your future.

My update for the anniversary edition of Windows 10 actually took closer to 5 hours. It was scheduled for 2am. It shut down the computer at the appointed time but failed to fire it up again. Consequently when I did on the train in the following morning it was hours of "Preparing to think about configuring your system for an eventual update, 30% complete". (Everything is always 30% complete with Windows Update. Forever.) The entire morning's work was blown as my notebook was nothing more than an illuminated paperweight for the bulk of it.

It's even worse for Home edition users whose systems WILL shut down when Microsoft decides, no ifs, buts or maybes.

Microsoft has somehow lost sight of the fact that we need WORK machines to do WORK when WE need them. Not when the operating system is kind enough to let us have them in between endless updates and spying on our hard drive. (And turning our notebooks into toaster ovens with slowly melting fans in the process.) I have no idea how it has come to that, but that, in a nutshell, is the Windows 10 Experience ((TM) Microsoft Corp).

Have Microsoft still not sorted this out!!!!

If they want to collect data off my system I can live with that BUT IT IS NOT A HIGH PRIORITY PROCESS that should trash my hard disk for 15 minutes every time I start the computer. I know they live in the land of hairy fairy and think users of there operating systems want their machines to spend time organising photos and telling you want the weather is, and it may come as a huge surprise to them to find out people just want to turn up, switch it on and do a days work! I do not believe I should have to dedicate more of my time trying to work out how to disable the crap ware so I can do a days work than I actually spend doing the work. And when you finally make some progress they do an update that takes all the machines down for 4 hours and put it all back again.

I have even given up and changed some of my platforms to Linux so I can get some work done :()

Diagnostics Tracking Service doesn't appear as an option in my Services Desktop App, so the way it worked was not at all. I had some success disabling the executable file by way of AVG PC Tuneup, which worked for a while, but then the other night the damned thing started running again. I've gone through everything again and cannot even find the executable file on my hard drive, but it's there and running. I have had less trouble with actual viruses! Now saving up for a Mac.