Designed to make Windows updates smoother, this hidden setting can also slow down your internet and blow through your data cap. Here's how to turn it off.

Windows quietly uses every PC running it as a node in a peer-to-peer file-sharing network for system updates, and most users have no idea it is happening. The feature, called Delivery Optimization, ...

I don't think Microsoft is doing anything evil here. Windows isn't uploading my personal files, and this isn't some sketchy background process pretending to be useful. It's a real Windows feature ...