Last week I caught Windows 10 doing something on my network drive for hours.
When I pulled the network cable, Superfetcht was seen in my task manager.
I don't know what it did but it ate up more than a 1 TB of network space to a point that it started to delete all my snapshots. I never found out where the disk space went, so I reformatted the network drive and put back the backup. So this time I am very concerned that Windows 10 will start to eat up my disk space again when I logon to it.
Sometimes I will need to access the network drive (to take my backups), but at that moment Windows will know the login and password and I want to avoid that. One trick could be to change the password every time I logged on to it with Windows 10. But that is a lot of work.
So how would you protect your network drive? Have a safe space that Windows can't access?
I checked out Steganos Suite 17, that is protecting your files but it does not seem to protect you from Windows 10 spying eyes. I mean it can create a vault, but it gives Windows 10 access to that vault too. So there is no point to use Steganos Suit 17.
And no moving to Linux is not an option in this case.
Edit: Some screen-shots what happened and why I don't want Windows 10 near my network drives.
- I see my NAS blinking like mad. While it should not.
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I check the task manager and notice System working like mad and the network working: https://slimgur.com/image/B6l
After hours of waiting, I finally pulled the NAS network cable, the NAS blinking stops and this pops up: https://slimgur.com/image/B6o
- Later I discover that my NAS drive is full: https://slimgur.com/image/B63
- Tried many days to find where the missing data went but never found it. The snapshots were empty.
- In the end reformatted the NAS drive, put back the data and now checking, the NAS drive works perfectly.
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[–] ObeyTheFist ago
No known way... Except for all the known ways. Like disabling the search and superfetch services.
Using the hosts file to block the telemetry targets.
Running one of the many batch files or PowerShell scripts to remove the CEIP malware patches from Windows Update.
Please try to be honest when offering technical advice (unless you genuinely didn't know about these options, in which case why are you offering technical advice?)
[–] Kaizervonmaanen ago
According to ars technica that does not stop the spyware or background communication with Microsoft. Using a host file to stop it would seem like a good idea, but that will also stop things like security updates and other important services. The script I have seen to stop it will only partially stopstop it.
[–] ObeyTheFist ago
Updates come from a different host than the telemetry target, so you're okay there.
Search and Super fetch specifically need to be stopped to reduce all the storage snooping.
I'm not saying it's easy, but it can be done.