Windows 10 is an excellent operating system, the best that Microsoft has ever done and above all it is free for those who already had Windows 7 and 8 (if you install it within a year of its release). Despite this, the controversies about Windows 10 are many and concern user privacy.
We have already talked about the privacy settings of Windows 10, also being perplexed by the fact that anything we write can be recorded by Microsoft in Windows 10 as a keylogger virus would.
Microsoft has denied spying on users and I think it's true, but despite this I have also disabled this possibility, since there is an option to do so.
Other controversies are related to the computer update process, which exploits a peer-to-peer technology (as happens in BitTorrent) so that the computer of each person in the world contributes to updating the others, through the internet connection.
To speed up the distribution of updates and patches, Microsoft has organized Windows Update on Windows 10 so that downloads take place not only from Microsoft's servers but also from other PCs with Windows 10.
Basically my computer is connected to everyone else and exchanges files with them in the background, to receive updates and to download apps.
This process is called Update from multiple locations and allows you to optimize and accelerate the delivery of updates to computers around the world .
The options for enabling and disabling the update from multiple locations can be found from the Start menu -> Settings> Update and recovery .
Select Windows Update, click on the Advanced Options link and then on " Choose how to deliver updates ".
From here you can activate or deactivate the update from multiple locations and, if activated, choose whether to share files with other computers only on the local home or office network or if to share files (regarding system and application updates) with other computers on the local network and on the Internet.
This second option is the default one, so everyone who has never noticed it makes their PC available to update others around the world.
There is, however, no cry to the scandal, it is only a setting to enable a collaborative system for the rapid distribution of updates and very important security patches that should never be ignored.
The update system is absolutely clean, without user privacy problems and with a very limited consumption of resources and traffic.
However, if you don't like the idea of sharing files with strangers' computers on the internet, then you can disable or, better, you can use the option to download and send updates only to computers on the local network and not on the internet.
The consequence is simply to have less efficiency in the management of Windows Update and to prevent Microsoft from using our PC to update others.
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