This setting shouldn't be enabled by default.

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, ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Delivery Optimization has shared my Windows update files with other PCs in the background for years, and I've always kept it on a short leash. If left ...

Is it possible to disable the uploads of delivery optimization? Googling suggested turning on metered connections would do it, which seems both excessive and difficult to verify it is actually ...

I’m a cheap, cranky old journalist with two kids and not a whole lot of patience. Microsoft, bless them, caters to people like me via a Windows 10 and Windows 11 feature called Delivery Optimization, ...