Is it too late to do a fresh install of win7?

[trinidad]

Won't say much about the video except it is typically sensationalist, and a bit lazy, and most of these same privacy concerns are as bad, or worse for many American cell phone users. Most of these things actually are functionality compromises for social media and enterprise. It is sensible to disable Cortana and I personally find voice activated services of any kind annoying, and yes MS collects to the voice record database at Cornell and other locations, but this is an expression database functioning similar to Debian's own. It is always good praxis to remember that when you use ANY computing device the information you enter is YOUR LIFE and it's simply not hidden anymore. ANY computer is a bad place to hide things. A gimmick is a gimmick. Congrats to the video maker. Most of this is avoidable by disabling updates and using the command prompt terminal to update and selecting what info to upload to MS, and a large chunk of public info recording can be disabled just by running default Firefox, Startpage, setting Libreoffice file type defaults, never using a mail client, and disabling Cortana and never syncing with other devices like cell phones, and NEVER using Facebook. XP may be the most hackable Windows ever. I believe it was voted so once.

TC