BlockWindows

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

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FILES

• BlockWindows.bat Right Click and "Run as Admin"

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

• DisableGWX.reg Disables Windows Update Nagging Notifications

• 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'

• README.md This readme

• unblock.bat Unblocks hosts2.bat blocking

• Updates.list List of all unwanted updates related to Windows 10; described further in Updates.list.md; can be added to as needed

• Updates.list.md Readme for the update list system added by AnrDaemon

• Updates_additional.list Additional list of unwanted updates that may cause problems or involve software updates to MS-related programs that involve tracking

• Updates_paranoid.list Additional list with updates that are considered suspicious by some websites

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This code was created with information from:

• (Dead link) 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

• (Dead link) 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

• http://www.askwoody.com/2016/unwanted-updates-for-windows-7/

• https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/list-of-windows-7-telemetry-updates-to-avoid.379151

• https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r30676597-Complete-Win10-blocking-host-file

• https://www.robtex.com/en/advisory/ip/111/221/29/254/

• https://gist.github.com/xvitaly/eafa75ed2cb79b3bd4e9

• Java Hash Calculator used to create SHA256 hashes

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Please submit any updates:

https://blockwindows.wordpress.com/

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P.S. 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.

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https://blockwindows.wordpress.com/

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

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

File Mirrors

LATEST

https://github.com/TambourineReindeer/BlockWindows/archive/master.zip (or go to "Clone or Download" at the top of the repository and click "Download ZIP")

OLD

http://mir.cr/1CGCWLDG

SHA256 3a2308b59086c6e6dc5734c71a22b0eab3c8289c9f7feb1632b4351247fa341f

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

SHA256 5f02ddef572cb408c5a9e44387e7d07ee4c95843edcdc79fa690b5a9910f6c74