Windows Spyblocker still good in 2025?

If you are using LTSC, SpyBlocker and every other Windows “Anti Spyware” tool including ShutUp10 is completely redundant and thus useless (and arguably, they are even useless on other versions of windows as well, such as consumer versions).

Microsoft Group Policy Editor on enterprise versions, including LTSC, allows you to disable ALL telemetry, including the ones that are normally required on other versions of windows. You can find out more by checking these pages:

It is generally ill advised to use any custom windows tool, as they are

A. Often made by people who have no idea what they are doing and can thus break stuff

B. Having completely different definitions of what is “bloat” and “telemetry” and thus end up disabling and removing stuff that would actually be useful to you

C. Can easily be used to hide malware and infect your system.

It’s strongly recommended to just use the registry editor, group policy editor, and the command prompt to configure windows instead, since you will be the one making the changes directly, and thus can customize windows exactly to your needs while also ensuring nothing malicious is added and nothing breaks.

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