I created this application after getting tired of seeing settings change for no apparent reason. Due to privacy concerns of how Microsoft is with their aggressive telemetry I decided to use this to make sure my settings stay in tact.
What does “all known Windows privacy and telemetry settings” entail and mean?
Registry and group policy?
Is this sourced from a shared effort project of known stuff, or does this project track it’s own, and would need notice and updates of new settings?
It’s theoretically possible to extract all the GPO effected registry keys from the ADMX files Microsoft releases, but yeah, I have serious doubts that any tool like this will be able to just detect and track every distinct setting. Let alone accurately identify what each does. I’m sure there’s at least one setting that’s been carried over from the “stuff it in an .ini in a system folder” days.
But if there is some community sourced list for settings, where they’re stored, and how they work that would be amazing!
Can this keep num lock engaged? I swear my biggest frustration with windows lately is it’s habit of randomly and arbitrarily turning off numlock after I’ve turned it on. I never turn off numlock while working. I never use the number pad arrows. I prefer the number pad numbers and use them practically all day. And yet, several times a day I find my cursor moving around the screen instead of typing a number because windows decided that it got to control the numlock function instead of me and the dedicated light up key designed for that function that has worked fine for me for decades before.
I will only use windows in a VM without networking, it will get only shared folder that it can’t write to but can read from.
And even then, if i absolutely 100% can’t run it through bottles/proton and alternatives do not work either.
