By Aaron Brown
WINDOWS 10 tracks your every keystroke and Cortana request, sending the data it collects back to Microsoft to try and improve accuracy. Here is how to stop it.
Microsoft records every tap on the keyboard in Windows 10, but you can switch it off
Windows 10, which unites the Microsoft ecosystem across a host of devices including smartphones, tablet and desktops PC, first rolled out back in July.
The Microsoft OS saw huge adoption within the first few hours of its release – but the free upgrade process has not been without issues.
Now a keylogger has reportedly been discovered within the latest Microsoft operating system.
The Redmond firm included the software, which tracks every keystroke made on the Windows 10 device, to try and improve its products and services.
Voice data is also collected and analysed every time virtual assistant Cortana is used on the desktop operating system.
It was thought that Microsoft would only include the key logger within the Technical Preview versions of the operating system, so that it could use the vast data supplied by beta testers to tweak the final release.
However the slightly creepy software has now been included in the commercial version of Windows 10, PC World has confirmed.
Fortunately, Windows 10 users can switch off the key logging.
Simply navigate to the Start Menu, then tap Settings to open the refreshed Settings window.
Privacy is in the third row of the menu.
Once you are in the Privacy menu, tap on General, then under Send Microsoft info about how I write to help use improve typing and writing in the future – toggle it to Off.
Under the Speech, Inking and Typing menu, which is in the menu on the left hand-side, some four rows beneath General – click Stop getting to know me.
This will turn off the speech tracking through dictation and Cortana.
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