I wondered what this was so took a look at it, it opens a thing in event viewer which then shows within it a list of "information" events (that is events classed as "information" rather than "error"s or "critical" bugs). The "source" for ALL these events is "Application-Experience", their dates and times go right back to when the computer was new. They all have "general" descriptions reading :
"Compatibility fix applied to C:\[path of an exe file]
Fix information:[program name], {[code of numbers and letters with some dashes separating them]}, 0X{some other number]"
The "details" "xml view" then shows some more information including precise times, "event IDs", "threadIDs", the "name" of my computer, a "channel", a "security userID", a "processID", a "fixID", a start time, "flags", the file's path and two microsoft URLs.It doesn't do this for every program but there are a lot for ms office programs, a lot for 7z and there seems to be one for every time I run vlc media player akong with a few relating to avast antivirus.
What is this log about, is this just data being collected or is it being sent to microsoft? I am pretty sure that the customer experience improvement program is disabled on this machine, so is this information just being archived but not sent on to ms? Is this data only data about crashes(No, it can't be only about crashes because some of the entires correlate to times when programs were running fine)? Is this data only about crashes and settings under which the programs were running (it could be this)? Or is this data about everything including what files I had open at the time, what exactly was open when a certain program crashes or what file a certain program was used to open (as in when you right click on a file and open with a particular program, so the program starts and imeediately opens the selected file)?
Can anyone explain what this data is precisely, if it's just about the settings of the programs that's fine, if it's about what files were open, what I typed at time X on day Y and such then it's creepy. Is this just the modern equivalent of windows xp's famous "would you like to send an error report"(but I've never seen any of those prompts on windows 8.1 when programs have crashed) or is this something else?
I had rejected certain updates a while back to stop certain extra features being added to windows 8.1's telemetry and the CEIP, does this mean that that sort of data collection (and transmission or not? CEIP is turned off so is this stuff just staying on my system?) is going on anyway despite me not having those KB updates? Also does the existence of these little pieces of information every time certain programs are opened mean those programs always have some kind of "crash" during opening, vlc runs fine but always takes a little while to open, does this mean that the reason it takes a while is because my system is having to fiddle around with settings each time so that it can run?
Thanks
Edited by rp88, 06 December 2015 - 03:33 PM.