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
    2017-03-25T02:47:21+00:00

    Also just thought of... you can beat them at their own game.  Create a scheduled task that upon logging in would disable the task with the following command line:

    schtasks.exe /change /tn "\Microsoft\Windows\Application Experience\ProgramDataUpdater" /DISABLE

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-03-24T22:57:35+00:00

    This is the only one that causes me problems and I find it easy enough to disable when an update enables it again.  As this is a component of MS Office, my only other suggestion would be to uninstall MS Office and go open source with LibreOffice or GoogleDocs.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-03-24T19:52:49+00:00

    Disable the task that starts the process:

    1. Open Task Scheduler
    2. Expand through Task Scheduler Library -> Microsoft -> Windows -> Application Experience
    3. Select the -> ProgramDataUpdater Task
    4. Verify on the Actions Tab that this starts the compattelrunner.exe
    5. Disable the task and restart

    Hi

    Disabling Microsoft -> Windows -> Application Experience won't help. I have all them disabled, plus Connected User Experiences and Telemetry service. And after each program update or install the damned Microsoft Compatibility Telemetry process starts scanning my HDD again, literally freezing my PC. Manually ending the process seems to be the only remedy unfortunately.

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-03-24T19:10:05+00:00

    Disable the task that starts the process:

    1. Open Task Scheduler
    2. Expand through Task Scheduler Library -> Microsoft -> Windows -> Application Experience
    3. Select the -> ProgramDataUpdater Task
    4. Verify on the Actions Tab that this starts the compattelrunner.exe
    5. Disable the task and restart

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