For users who haven't signed in with a Microsoft account and given Microsoft access to their computer activity, the Windows 10 task view contains a message right below the currently open applications:
Naturally, because this is Windows 10, there's no way to dismiss this nudge except by giving up and letting Microsoft harvest your computer activity for fun and profit. This irritates me immensely.
My question is, can any of you lovely individuals help me make this go away? Is there a registry edit I can make? It's hard to just avoid task view, as I have a 2-in-1 laptop and task view is the easiest way to switch windows in tablet mode, as well as the only way I know to manage multiple desktops.
Best Answer
Following on lincb's answer, you can set the registry key corresponding to that group policy at:
That is, at that path in the registry, add the 32-bit DWORD
UploadUserActivitiesand set its value to 0.