Maintain & secure your privacy from Windows 8 Apps

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Windows 8 is latest & more secure operating system from pervious windows operating systems, Windows 8 provides lots of cool features and apps which makes it better from previous version of windows operating system.

Windows 8 was launched in 2012 and the latest OS version is Windows 8.1, the main features of windows 8 is Apps, windows 8 comes with many pre-loaded Apps like Sky drive, Outlook, Music & video players, Bing, Market, News and many more.

Windows 8 also provides an windows app store which is fully loaded with millions of apps, in windows store both free and paid apps are available for download, you can also upgrade to windows 8.1 through windows 8.

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Now coming to the topic, we all wants to maintain our privacy and we don’t like if anyone can access our locations, email account information and our pictures, If you are windows 8 or Windows 8.1 user and using apps on your PC then be alert some of apps using your account info, locations and many more things.

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Windows 8 provides an option to stop apps to accessing your location & account info and Picture. You can easily use this function to maintain your privacy, simply follow the below steps for the procedure.

Procedure to stop apps to access your location and account info

1) Go to setting

2) Select “Change PC setting” options

3) After that select “Privacy” Tab

4) Now simply click on “Off” button for

• Let apps use my location
• Let apps use my account information and picture

That’s it, Now your PC apps don’t have privilege to access your location, account info & picture.

Hope you like our article to “Secure your Privacy from windows 8 apps”, If you any difficulty or doubt related to windows 8 then let me know in by below commenting.