Vista - Re: Microsoft monitors your internet activity via Vista/IE7

I believe that after the second or third time you use IE initially, you get
a pop-up window asking if you want to join the Customer Experience
Improvement Program. There is no way to turn it off or on in IE's Options,
that I can see.

On the other hand, Windows Media Player has the option in Tools > Options,
on the Privacy tab. Windows Media Center has the option in Tasks > Settings
> General > Privacy.

Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program and Resulting Internet
Communication in Windows Vista
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Window....mspx?mfr=true

If CEIP is on, then this is true: "Data for the Windows Customer Experience
Improvement Program is collected over time and sent periodically, about
every 19 hours, although data is not collected or sent if the computer is on
battery power, and no attempt to send data is made if the computer is not
connected to a network[!]."

While the titles look like real snoozers, you can see a fairly comprehensive
list as to the use of a program's various functions and how it might send
info to Microsoft:

Windows Vista Privacy Notice Highlights
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvist.../vistartm.mspx

Windows Vista Privacy Statement
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvist...artm_full.mspx

Windows Vista Privacy Supplement
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvist...tm_detail.mspx

Microsoft Internet Explorer Privacy Statement
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/...privacy_7.mspx

"JethroUK©" <reply@the.board> wrote in message
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> only today i seen somewhere (i/explorer>tools>options maybe?) that
> Microsoft monitors/reports your internet activity by default unless you
> 'un'check this option - which i did
>
> Haven't been able to find this option since - does anyon else now where it
> lives?

"dean-dean" <dean-dean@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I believe that after the second or third time you use IE initially, you get
> a pop-up window asking if you want to join the Customer Experience
> Improvement Program. There is no way to turn it off or on in IE's
> Options,
> that I can see.

It seems i wasn't dreaming after all since Jane (earlier post) also knows of
'Customer Experience Improvement Program' with fault finder which sounds
very much how i remember it albeit not exactly as/where she described

I didn't get a pop-up, I was fishing around & I feel quite sure I saw it, it
was related to internet usage & I switched it off


>
> On the other hand, Windows Media Player has the option in Tools > Options,
> on the Privacy tab. Windows Media Center has the option in Tasks >
> Settings
> > General > Privacy.
>
> Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program and Resulting Internet
> Communication in Windows Vista
> http://technet2.microsoft.com/Window....mspx?mfr=true
>
> If CEIP is on, then this is true: "Data for the Windows Customer
> Experience
> Improvement Program is collected over time and sent periodically, about
> every 19 hours, although data is not collected or sent if the computer is
> on
> battery power, and no attempt to send data is made if the computer is not
> connected to a network[!]."
>
> While the titles look like real snoozers, you can see a fairly
> comprehensive
> list as to the use of a program's various functions and how it might send
> info to Microsoft:
>
> Windows Vista Privacy Notice Highlights
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvist.../vistartm.mspx
>
> Windows Vista Privacy Statement
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvist...artm_full.mspx
>
> Windows Vista Privacy Supplement
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvist...tm_detail.mspx
>
> Microsoft Internet Explorer Privacy Statement
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/...privacy_7.mspx
>
> "JethroUK©" <reply@the.board> wrote in message
> news:51tvi.12994$rr5.4897@newsfe1-win.ntli.net...
>> only today i seen somewhere (i/explorer>tools>options maybe?) that
>> Microsoft monitors/reports your internet activity by default unless you
>> 'un'check this option - which i did
>>
>> Haven't been able to find this option since - does anyon else now where
>> it
>> lives?
>