{"id":17049,"date":"2021-06-17T08:22:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T08:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=17049"},"modified":"2021-06-17T08:22:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T08:22:48","slug":"disable-deleting-diagnostic-data-in-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/disable-deleting-diagnostic-data-in-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Ways to Disable Deleting Diagnostic Data in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

By default, Microsoft collects diagnostic data anonymously from your Windows 10 system. Starting with Windows 10 version 1809, you can use a group policy to allow or deny the ability to delete diagnostics data. In this tutorial we’ll show you 2 ways to disable deleting diagnostic data in Windows 10.<\/p>\n

Method 1: Disable Deleting Diagnostic Data in Windows 10 via Group Policy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Open Local Group Policy Editor<\/a> and browse to: Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Data Collection and Preview Builds<\/code>. Next, double-click on the “Disable deleting diagnostic data<\/strong>” policy in the right pane.<\/p>\n

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Select the Enabled<\/strong> option if you want to prevent users from deleting diagnostic data. Click Apply<\/strong> and then OK<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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If you open the Settings app and navigate to: Privacy -> Diagnostics & feedback<\/code>, you’ll find the “Delete<\/strong>” button is greyed out.<\/p>\n

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Method 2: Disable Deleting Diagnostic Data in Windows 10 via Registry Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n

Open Registry Editor<\/a> and navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Policies\\Microsoft\\Windows\\DataCollection<\/code>. In the right pane, right-click the blank area and select New<\/strong> -> DWORD (32-bit) Value<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Name the newly-created DWORD as DisableDeviceDelete<\/strong>, and then double-click it to change the value data to 1.<\/p>\n

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Close Registry Editor. Now you can check if the option of deleting diagnostic data is disabled in the “Diagnostic & feedback” Settings page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By default, Microsoft collects diagnostic data anonymously from your Windows 10 system. Starting with Windows 10 version 1809, you can use a group policy to allow or deny the ability to delete diagnostics data. In this tutorial we’ll show you 2 ways to disable deleting diagnostic data in Windows 10. Method 1: Disable Deleting Diagnostic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894],"tags":[4681,4682],"class_list":["post-17049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","tag-disable-deleting-diagnostic-data-windows-10","tag-prevent-deleting-diagnostic-data-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17049"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17061,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17049\/revisions\/17061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}