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[Tilaron]

My computer had a funny turn about an hour ago, the action centre suddenly lit up telling me my user control somethingorother (the thing that controls pop-ups whenever you use .exes etc.) had been changed/disabled... it hadn't, but this made me think "Oh no muh datas" so I ran windows defender, it found no problems, neither did malwarebytes. However, windows defender was now saying real-time protection was disabled, which malwarebytes shouldn't affect (and I don't leave malwarebytes running anyway because it can be incredibly annoying sometimes). So I tried to reenable it and that's when I saw the message that is the title of this thread with the little slider greyed out in the off position. The attached picture was taken AFTER I had tried several fixes to remove this message (including the telemetry fix, changing domain settings, several registry 'fixes' (some registry keys weren't even there for me)) and it was in the group policy editor I was able to force real-time protection back on.

 

But still I'm stuck with this message and the normal way to enable/disable real-time protection is unavailable. It seems a lot of people have had this message with other parts of windows (lock screen, changing updates) and have found ways to fix it, but unfortunately I seem to be in a minority without a working fix.

 

Soooooo ... anyone here like mysteries? I'm stumped.

 

I'm on Win10 Pro, version 1607, build 14393.1066, 64-bit.

[Electronics Wizardy]

have you touched anything in GPedit?

[Tilaron]

I only touched the real-time protection setting after getting nowhere with any other fixes. I had this message before I started trying to solve it, but before today I'd never had this message before. I also haven't had a windows update for about a week.

[DnFx91]

13 minutes ago, Tilaron said:

I only touched the real-time protection setting after getting nowhere with any other fixes. I had this message before I started trying to solve it, but before today I'd never had this message before. I also haven't had a windows update for about a week.

ugh this again, i still don't know, random machines on my fleet keep coming back with this insulting shit-eating message. All my machines have local administrator accounts, they are only used by techies from my company who have been briefed on what they are allowed to do on my machines. Yet they keep showing up.

 

Please someone if you have the answer, enlighten me, i keep just re-imaging these machines every time they show up and it wastes way too much of my time

[DnFx91]

ok i worked it out, apparently i was just shit at googling before.

"i can insult my own google usage on LTT right ?"

 

Turns out this message appears when you have Diagnostic & Usage Data set to "Basic"

 

Change it to Enhanced and the message goes away.

 

 

So essentially, microsoft are after our data, and will make our OS ugly if we don't give it to them, thanks 

[Tilaron]

21 minutes ago, DnFx91 said:

ok i worked it out, apparently i was just shit at googling before.

"i can insult my own google usage on LTT right ?"

 

Turns out this message appears when you have Diagnostic & Usage Data set to "Basic"

 

Change it to Enhanced and the message goes away.

 

 

So essentially, microsoft are after our data, and will make our OS ugly if we don't give it to them, thanks 

I tried this, rebooted, message was still there. There's a fix that involves switching it to full & back to basic which didn't work for me, and I'd rather keep the privacy settings as tight as possible. UGh.