Although most, if not all the services that we use daily, are dedicated to collecting data about our tastes, what we look for, or what we do in front of our computer, users have become accustomed to this type of interference in order to use them for free, though sometimes we have to suffer the happy publicity, which depending on the service, can get mad. But sometimes, if we want to walk a bit through the conditions of service, we may not like what can be stored on our person and we want to eliminate it completely.
All operating systems do tooAlthough it is always said that Apple does not do it, it is one of those that is also in charge of collecting what we do or stop doing, although it is true that for other purposes not intended for advertising, the fact is that it does . Fortunately in Windows 10, we can delete all the data that Microsoft has about us, to target its applications, advertising and others directly from the configuration options.
Delete our personal data in Windows 10
Within Windows 10, Cortana is the one that can make use of the data that is collected the most, to know at all times to guide our questions, like Siri or Google Now to name the best known. To delete the history that Windows 10 has stored in Cortana we will proceed as follows:
- Click on the Cortana search box.
- Next, we click on the cogwheel that will give us access to the Microsoft assistant configuration.
- We scroll to the end and click on Delete my device history.
Once deleted, we uncheck the switch located just above this option, to prevent the device from storing our data and histories to improve the search through Cortana.