Originally Posted by
ik9000
well with all that built-in telemetry why not do some random crap just to mess with the stats. Download and install as much early 2000s software as you can find, things like telnet, clipart, nero3, quark 5, Mso 2000, MSN messenger, better still ICQ, the original zonealarm and the like. Just fill the thing up with obsolete guff to get the boys at Microsoft wondering what on earth is going on.
then on a more constructive level why not try to learn to do some programming? If you want to get the best out of a machine and build your skill set why not learn ms scripting and something like C++ or similar. Then you can start writing some of your own stuff to auto-generate FU microsoft responses each time it asks to collect data on you.
Then you can pop in a 2nd hdd set up dual boot and learn linux, and never look back again.