I mistakenly thought all these new W10 programs that turn off telemetry & enhance privacy were only for W10. Well at the very beginning when O&O ShutUp & another were the only 2 programs that was so. Not anymore. I went to MajorGeeks & checked out a W10 privacy & anti-telemetry video. [Tim Tibbets does a great job. Sorry Tim about all the dead Bunnies. (A MG inside joke.)] And lo & behold many work for W7 too. So the combo I'm using because 1 alone wasn't giving full protection. On W7P64 these 2 are Spybot Anti-Beacon & Destroy Windows 10 Spying. Because to me these 2 seem the easiest & safest. Anyways with the combo & a lot of setting resetting white-listing my AV to these 2 & rebooting to make sure the changes survived. I've come across 1 minor problem. I excluded 1 WU from being removed & hidden. Can't remember & Destroy Windows 10 Spying resets the GUI but not the applied settings. It was an innocuous security update. I finally got Spybot Anti-Beacon to say I am 100% protected. But after every reboot it goes to 98% protected. Being that only 4/5 Customer Experience Improvement Program are turned off. How can I can I find out which CEIP keeps turning itself on & stop it?
On my Win 7 x64 Home Premium, CEIP is off by default. I've never touched it and when I just checked now, it's not on, as far as I can tell.
Give this a try... http://www.ghacks.net/2016/10/26/turn-off-the-windows-customer-experience-program/
I used them all emmjay except Media Player or Microsoft Office privacy settings since neither are installed. Still no soap.
I took a peek at the portable version of Spybot Anti-Beacon recently. IIRC, the log was very limited but there was a GUI way to show/hide some details and help listed a command line option to show verbose output (which I didn't try). If those don't help you zero in there is https://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?72686-Spybot-Anti-Beacon-for-Windows-10. Do you recall some of the other tools that were retrofitted to work with Windows 7? If so, you could try those or other known ones to see if they too report something different after reboot. You probably know this, but anyway... good luck and let us know if you figure it out.