How to Start/Stop Connected User Experiences and Telemetry Service
Service name: DiagTrack
Display name: Connected User Experiences and Telemetry
Description:
The Connected User Experiences and Telemetry service enables features that support in-application and connected user experiences.
Additionally, this service manages the event driven collection and transmission of diagnostic and usage information (used to improve the
experience and quality of the Windows Platform) when the diagnostics and usage privacy option settings are enabled under Feedback
and Diagnostics.
Path to executable:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs -p
CMD:
This method shows you how to Start/Stop Connected User Experiences and Telemetry service from Command Prompt
Perform the following steps:
Please go to Start and click on the Type here to search
Type cmd, right click on cmd icon under the Programs and click on Run as administrator
Please confirm User Account Control pop-up
Please select, right and copy a registry key from below, then right click on command prompt window, select Paste and press Enter
To Start Connected User Experiences and Telemetry service:
net start DiagTrack
sc start DiagTrack
Note: You can’t start a service if Startup type is on Disabled.
To Stop Connected User Experiences and Telemetry service:
net stop DiagTrack
sc stop DiagTrack
To change Startup type:
Automatic:
REG add "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\PerfHost\DiagTrack" /v Start /t REG_DWORD /d 2 /f
sc config DiagTrack start= auto
Manual:
REG add "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\DiagTrack" /v Start /t REG_DWORD /d 3 /f
sc config DiagTrack start= demand
Disabled:
REG add "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\DiagTrack" /v Start /t REG_DWORD /d 4 /f
sc config DiagTrack start= disabled
Automatic (Delayed Start):
REG add "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\DiagTrack" /v Start /t REG_DWORD /d 2 /f
sc config DiagTrack start= delayed-auto
Note: When you change to Automatic (Delayed Start) a new key DelayedAutostart is created with value 1.
REG add "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\DiagTrack" /v DelayedAutostart /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
When you change to Automatic from Automatic (Delayed Start), DelayedAutostart change value to 0.
REG add "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\DiagTrack" /v DelayedAutostart /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f
