DISABLING Wi-Fi SENSE IN WINDOWS 10

Learn how to disable this feature completely in the latest version of Windows

INTRODUCTION

The new ‘Wi-Fi Sense’ feature of Windows 10 is a very powerful tool. Managing Wi-Fi connections while outside your home network can be a headache at times. With Wi-Fi Sense enabled, Windows 10 will automatically sign you into open Wi-Fi networks, as well as private networks that your Outlook, Skype, and Facebook contacts have logged into—so you won’t have to manually sign into the network when you visit your friend’s house.

UPGRADING TO WINDOWS 10

A new aspect of Windows 10; enhanced security is the primary reason of upgradation to this latest version of Windows by many users. Touted as the most secure version of Windows, the new features include

• Advanced Biometric logins• Iris scanning• Fingerprint scanning• Facial recognition• Advanced Phishing protection using a cloud-based system

WHAT IS Wi-Fi SENSE?

Wi-Fi Sense helps in connecting to Wi-Fi- hotspots automatically. It can repeatedly connect you to open Wi-Fi networks that other Windows users have crowdsourced, by connecting to them. These are usually open Wi-Fi hotspots you see when you are out and about. When one of these crowdsourced hotspots is in range, Wi-Fi Sense can connect you to it automatically giving you Internet access.

CONNECTING WITH Wi-Fi SENSE

Wi-Fi Sense automatically connects you to nearby

Wi-Fi networks, helping you to save your mobile

data for when you really need it and giving you

more Internet connectivity options. Wi-Fi Sense

can do a lot of things to get you connected to the

Internet using Wi-Fi, so you don't have to do

them on your own.

BENEFITS OF Wi-Fi SENSE

• Automatically connecting you to crowdsourced open Wi-Fi networks it knows about• Accepting a Wi-Fi network's terms of use on your behalf and providing additional info for you to networks that require it• Letting you exchange password-protected Wi-Fi network access with your contacts to give and get Internet access without seeing each other's Wi-Fi network passwords

SHARING Wi-Fi ACCESS WITH CONTACTS

You can share access to password-protected Wi-Fi networks to give your Facebook friends, Outlook.com contacts or Skype contacts internet access without seeing each other's Wi-Fi network passwords. Your contacts and friends are then automatically connected to the Wi-Fi network you share if they're using Wi-Fi Sense. Likewise, you can automatically connect to Wi-Fi networks; they share with you to give you Internet access.

SECURITY AND PRIVACY

• Wi-Fi Sense indirectly erodes the concept of user privacy and the need for best security practices• Shared information on Wi-Fi Sense is stored by Microsoft on their servers, making the information susceptible to bugs• Sharing network information with someone on Facebook, Outlook or Skype, gives everyone present in your contacts list on Facebook, Outlook or Skype, access to your network information

HOW TO DISABLE Wi-Fi SENSE?

• Open the Start menu, type in Wi-Fi in the search box• Click on ‘Change Wi-Fi settings’• In the Settings tab, click on ‘Manage Wi-Fi settings’• Once there, you will notice checkboxes for Outlook, Skype and Facebook contacts• Uncheck all the boxes• This ensures that Wi-Fi Sense and open password sharing with your friends and contacts, is disabled

 

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