📊 VBA (Excel)
Apply Disable Windows Telemetry (VBA)
Lowers the diagnostic data Windows sends to Microsoft (requires admin). Applied via WScript.Shell.RegWrite from VBA. Requires an elevated (Administrator) prompt.
DisableTelemetryRegSet.bas
Attribute VB_Name = "DisableTelemetryRegSet"
Option Explicit
Public Sub DisableTelemetryRegSet()
Dim wsh As Object
Dim regPath As String
Set wsh = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
regPath = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\DataCollection\AllowTelemetry"
wsh.RegWrite regPath, 0, "REG_DWORD"
MsgBox "Disable Windows Telemetry applied." & vbCrLf & regPath, vbInformation
End Sub