This might help:
https://gist.github.com/alirobe/7f3b34ad89a159e6daa1
You can turn the vast majority of it off. The rest you can probably resolve with blocking the telemetry servers:
www.dslreports.com/forum/r30676597-Complete-Win10-blocking-host-file
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Fri 17 Mar 2017, 11:24,
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"If I remember correctly, if you block them in the hosts file Windows puts out errors in the log and then silently queries the DNS and connects nevertheless.
This file should be set in the router's kill file, not on the Windows machine itself."
Sneaky. I doubt there is a way to silence W10 fully.
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omnitruncatedkraken from Empire Algol, Fri 17 Mar 2017, 15:52,
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