oi-buhtig / blockwindows

Stop Windows 10 Nagging and Spying. Works with Win7-10

BlockWindows

Stop Windows 7 through 10 Nagging and Spying updates, Tasks, IPs, and services. Works with Windows 7 through 10

FILES

BlockWindows.bat Right Click and "Run as Admin"

hosts.bat Works with Windows 7 and 8. Appends current hosts file. Run from your Downloads directory. Doesn't work on Windows 10, copy hosts file to your router or firewall if using Windows 10

hosts2.bat Blocks M$ hosts with firewall BLOCKS most M$ sites OUTLOOK,HOTMAIL,ETC REM any you use

hosts DNS file of MS hosts to block

hostlist MS Hosts file to blocking for router or firewall use

hosts-dnsmasq Hosts file for dd-wrt and other routers

HideWindowsUpdates.vbs Hides blocked updates, to reinstall click 'show hidden updates'

DisableWiFiSense.reg Adds registry to disable WiFi Sense, which steals your wifi password without your consent.

unblock.bat Unblocks hosts2.bat blocking

JavaScript HashCalc

http://sourceforge.net/projects/hash-calculator/

I created this code from information from:

http://www.hakspek.com/security/windows-script-to-remove-all-windows-10-telemetry-updates/

Bitblp

http://serverfault.com/questions/145843/block-specific-windows-update-hotfix/341318

Colin Bowern and Opmet

https://www.astaro.org/gateway-products/web-protection-web-filtering-application-visibility-control/58583-heres-how-block-windows-10-spying-2.html

Pascalgoty and Fuselet

Please submit any updates

https://blockwindows.wordpress.com/

PS There is a highly concerted effort by M$ to harass websites that link to this. I'm tired of constantly trying to convince website admins it's not spam.

Please repost these URLs many places on social media, blogs, etc. I'm in it for the long haul.

https://blockwindows.wordpress.com/

https://github.com/WindowsLies/BlockWindows/

https://gitlab.com/windowslies/blockwindows/

File Mirrors

LATEST

http://mir.cr/1JDZGZXN

SHA256 7905318a9d35b024f1bffc78d12a8e38a3deeed63a61792b2a274300addc5c87

OLD

http://www.hakspek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/block_w10.zip

SHA256 5f02ddef572cb408c5a9e44387e7d07ee4c95843edcdc79fa690b5a9910f6c74