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September 19th, 2022 
Awake Goy 
Microsoft’s Window 10 operating system from the ‘factory’ or OOBE (Out Of Box Experience) is plain and simple spyware which stifle’s your computer’s performance.
One can mitigate Microsoft’s data hoovering, but ultimtely in order to stop Windows from keylogging your keyboard moves and other things one does on a PC is to not use it, period.
Depending on your hardware a ‘normal’ Windows 10 installation, after the operating system ‘settling down’ after ~10minutes may have ~120 processes, 1150 threads and 40,000 handles which is a lot of work for something that is not doing anything beneficial for the user.
While there is no silver bullet to Microsoft’s telemetry, while you’re using its products. there are a few good utilities that get rid of bloatware and minimise the data collection.
Some products that can be used are DISM++, W10Privacy, O&OS10, WPD in conjunction with a good hosts file (anything from 300kB – 4500kB) which lists Microsoft’s telemetry servers and other nasty data gathering sources.
From a fresh installation of Windows together with the implementation of the listed and unlisted tools one should be able to cut the Processes, Threads and Handles by half where during that process one can install a distribution of Linux, learn the basics and not have to deal with Microsoft’s data hoovering from the ‘factory’.
Windows 8.1 has less bloat and [maybe less embedded] spyware, where a lockdown of the operating system should yield the results of Processes, Thread and Handles to be in the magnitude of 33, 460, 10630 respectively.
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