Disable Windows Internet Connection with Microsoft to improve privacy

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Disable Windows Internet Connection with Microsoft to improve privacy

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Whenever you start a PC running Windows, an Internet connection test is run automatically to test the Internet availability.

The test tries to connect to a Microsoft website --

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-- to download the ncsi.txt text file from the server the website is hosted on.

IIS logs are stored on the server at

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These logs contain the time of each access and the IP address recorded for that access. These IP addresses are not used to identify users, and in many cases, they are the address of a network address translation (NAT) computer or proxy server, not a specific client behind that NAT computer or proxy server.

The first disables the check in the Windows Registry :

1. Use the Windows-R combination to bring up the run box on your system.
   
2. Type regedit and hit enter.
   
3. Confirm the UAC prompt that appears.
   
4. Navigate to the following folder: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\NlaSvc\Parameters\Internet
   
5. Double-click on EnableActiveProbing and change its value from 1 to 0.
   
6. This disables the feature. Should you wish to enable it again at a later point in time, change its value back to 1.