

With Activity History disabled in the Settings application, Microsoft's Privacy Dashboard would still display records of activity on the device on which the change was made. I verified the claim on a Windows 10 device. Sign in was done with a local account and a Microsoft Account was used only for the Store.Įven with all Activity History toggles disabled, Activity History was displayed on the Privacy Dashboard for the Microsoft account. If a customer wants to prevent their Windows 10 device from sending apps and service Activity History to Microsoft they need to use the following two Windows Settings configurations:ġ.    Under Settings->Privacy->Activity history: ensure the setting “Let Windows sync my activities from this PC to the cloud†is not checkedĢ.    Under Settings->Privacy->Diagnostics & feedback: ensure Diagnostic data is set to BasicĮven if you disable all three options in Settings, activity may be listed on Microsoft's Privacy Dashboard website on the company's site.Ī user on Reddit noticed this and published a question on the site about the issue.
