[Update] W10Privacy 6.2.0.1

On Fri, 14 Aug 2026 06:37:16 -0500, Allan Higdon <[email protected]> wrote:

> "W10Privacy enables you to modify various settings in Windows 10 that have raised privacy concerns with many users. Although these settings/features can be turned of and off from within Windows, they are not easy to locate and manualy adjustments can be time consuming.
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> W10Privacy provides you with a tabbed interface that makes it easy to adjust these settings or turn questionable features on and off. The program indicates with options can be tweaked without side effects and which you should be careful with.
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> In addition to privacy related settings W10Privacy also offers access to various system tweaks for Search, Network, Explorer, Firewall and other Windows features.
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> If you run the program as Administrator, it can automatically create a Restore Point for you so that you can undo any changes, if needed."
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> https://www.snapfiles.com/get/win10privacy.html
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> Installer Offers Portable Mode
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> Home Page
> https://www.w10privacy.de/english-home/
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> Changelog
> https://translate.google.de/translate?hl=de&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.winprivacy.de%2Fdeutsch-start%2Fversionshistorie%2F


6.2.0.1 (17.08.2026)

- Most of the settings available in the "Firewall" tab are based on application paths. On some systems, automatic Windows path redirection for the 32-bit compiled version led to problems. W10Privacy caused an error where no application was found in the redirected path, and therefore no settings were displayed. This issue has now been resolved.
- Standardization of the descriptions of the settings in the "Firewall" tab

6.2.0.0 (17.08.2026)

- Adding various settings: In some cases, multiple "switches" exist for the same setting within Windows. Therefore, settings have been modified in some places to include these. Additional parameters added.
- Adding further useful settings in the various tabs.
- Due to increasing settings related to "Copilot & AI", a new "Copilot and AI" tab has been created. Some settings from the "Privacy" section have been moved there. The settings were moved, and new settings that were determined and reported in the meantime were created.
- In Windows 10 Privacy version 5, an option to remove OneDrive was already available. This feature was previously missing in version 6, but it has now been added. Removal can occur in both user and system context.
- In Windows 11, tooltips were previously displayed as long as the mouse hovered over the setting. Windows 10 has a different default behavior here; the tooltips are Previously, tooltips disappeared after approximately 5 seconds. This has now been standardized, so that tooltips generally remain active for a maximum of 32 seconds.
- Disabling the "CDPSvc" and "CDPUserSvc" services will cause "Night Mode" to no longer function. This has been added to the tooltip, and the reset value has been changed to... "Automatically" adjusted.
- The "Disable AutoLogger" setting partially reverted itself. Adjusting additional registry values ​​should now resolve the issue.
- The "Uninstall Microsoft Edge" setting previously required the existence of an uninstall registry value. However, such a key does not exist on some systems. No, therefore the setting now also takes into account the existence of the folder "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge". Consequently, "Microsoft Edge" is recognized as installed and thus... The option to uninstall is also available.
- Updating the IP addresses associated with Microsoft that can be blocked via the "IP address blocking" settings.