The first O&O ShutUp10++ update for Windows 10 and 11 of 2024 is now available. It is an excellent privacy tool to improve privacy through an easy to use interface.
You can check out my full review of O&O ShutUp10++ for in-depth information.
O&O ShutUp10++ 1.9.1437
The new version of the free application is available already. It was released about a week ago. New and existing users may download it from the official project website.
The update introduces new privacy options and also quality of life improvements. As far as privacy options are concerned, here is what is new:
- NEW: Disable remote assistance connections to this computer
- NEW: Disable remote connections to this computer
You find these two new options under Local Machine > Miscellaneous at the very bottom of the page.
The remaining changes improve usability of the app. Whenever you make a change, you receive a prompt to create a system restore point. If the feature is disabled, O&O ShutUp10++ may now launch the Control Panel in this case to rectify this.
Existing users may also notice that the start of the app is faster than before.
The configuration file is saved to the start directory now, and it is automatically migrated from previous versions. The file is called OOSU10.cfg and you find it in the same directory that you run O&O ShutUp10++ from. This makes it easier to migrate the configuration to other systems.
The application supports making bulk changes. It distinguishes between recommended, somewhat recommended, and all settings. A click on any of those under Actions displays the number of changed preferences now.
Tip: while these actions sound useful, they are applied immediately. It is better to make changes manually instead.
- Select View > Group by Categories to disable the grouping of settings.
- Click on “recommended” in the table to sort by recommendation state.
- Go through the list from top to bottom and make the changes manually.
Closing Words
O&O ShutUP10++ is an excellent free application for Windows to improve user privacy on the system. It is updated frequently to introduce new privacy options, such as disabling Copilot.
Do you use privacy tweak tools or system optimization tools? Which do you use and prefer?
@Martin
Off topic, “msrc-notifications@microsoft.com” is spamming me, I’ve gotten 26 emails in the last hour!
Are you seeing this too?
I do not see this, sorry.
I remember using this a few years ago. I had already turned off lots of things manually and using a few registry tweaks as well. I decided to give this program a go just to see if it would offer more things to turn off than I already had. There were some, so I turned them off too. The program showed that basically everything was now turned off. Restarted. To my absolute horror, every setting I previously had turned off were now turned back on in the Windows Settings. This program reverted them even though they were OFF in the UI when it started up for the first time. I wasn’t gonna do all the work all over again, so I did a system restore to an earlier point. Then I got rid of this program and swore I will never ever use it again and will talk S**T about it wherever and whenever I can. Maybe they fixed it? Maybe the program is now very good? I don’t care, it messed up my game and I hate it with a vengeance to my dying day.
The program is reliable. Of course, it is NOT recommended to use more than one “tweak” tool especially if one of them is not being updated, or to randomly apply tweaks and hacks without being careful.
O&O ShutUp10++ is being updated and is safe to use. You should follow the program’s advice and create a restore point before making changes, just in case.