(Important: You’ll need to enable System Restore for the C: drive if it isn’t already enabled.) The Ultimate Windows Tweaker tool should now be open on your screen.ġ2 – (Optional, but strongly recommended) – Click the Create Restore Point button and create a System Restore Point. Sound good? Here are step-by-step instructions for downloading Ultimate Windows Tweaker and using it to completely lock down all of Windows 10’s important privacy settings:ġ – Click here to visit the Ultimate Windows Tweaker download page at OlderGeeks.Ģ – Scroll down and click on the huge green Download Now link.ģ – Copy the downloaded zipped folder to the Windows Desktop.Ĥ – Right-click on the zipped UWT4.zip folder, then click Extract All.ĥ – Click Extract. You should now see an unzipped folder named UWT4 on your Desktop.Ħ – Delete the zipped UWT4.zip folder (you won’t be needing it again).ħ – Double-click on the UWT4 folder to open it.ĩ – Double-click on Ultimate Windows Tweaker 4.7.1.ġ0 – Double-click on Ultimate Windows Tweaker 4.7.1.exe.ġ1 – Click Yes in response to the “User Account Control” dialog.

Luckily, an awesome free tool called Ultimate Windows Tweaker makes it very easy to change ALL of Windows 10’s important privacy settings at one time.Īll you have to do is run the program, check the boxes and then click “Apply Tweaks”. That makes it very difficult and time-consuming to make all those tweaks, and the task can be virtually impossible if you don’t know where to find all of them!

There are almost two dozen important privacy settings that need to be changed in order to lock down your privacy as much as possible, but unfortunately they’re scattered all over the place throughout your Windows 10 installation. Truth be told, if you accept all of Windows 10’s default privacy settings you won’t have much privacy at all while you’re using your PC. As you probably know by now, Windows 10 is a nightmare when it comes to privacy.

Windows 10 tweaker tool