Need Help With O&o Shutup10, It's A Little Confusingt

i assume that an option that has its toggle switch in the red position is currently disabled, right? So if that option is to disable something, but the toggle is red, the something it's supposed to disable is currently enabled, right? So in order to disable it, I have to switch the toggle to green, right?

Example: The option, "Disable conducting experiments with this machine by Microsoft" is currently set to red. I certainly don't want Microsoft conducting experiments with my machine, and in the recommended column of ShutUp10, this option has a green tick for yes. So I assume I should switch the toggle to green, right? Only reason I'm confused is I don't understand why the option isn't already set to green. If it's one of the recommended options, then why isn't it set to green by default? Seems strange that something ShutUp10 recommends be done, they wouldn't have already done for me. That way I could just look at the option, see it was set to green, and move on to the next option.

And another thing that's confusing is the word limited in the recommended column with a yellow symbol. What does limited mean? I can do only one of two things, either toggle the option to green or to red. So if the recommendation's limited, then which should I do?

Finally, I'd like to go through all the not recommended options.

Sending URLs from apps to Windows Store disabled
This option's currently set to red, so if I set it to green, I assume I'll be disabling sending URLs from apps to Windows Store. What's wrong with that? Why is it not recommended? Why would I want URLs to be sent from apps to Windows Store?

Prohibit apps from running in the background
Currently set to red. What apps? What apps might be prohibited from running in the background? All apps? Including any I might install myself and might want to keep running in the background? Can't I choose individually which apps I want to run in the background and which ones I don't?

Disable SmartScreen Filter
I feel pretty safe about going against the not recommended on this one and just disabling it. I know which browsers to use and which ones not to use, I know where to go and where not to go, and I know how to use an antivirus. So I think I'll just go ahead and switch SmartScreen Filter off. What do you guys recommend?

Disabling Automatic Windows Updates
I have mixed feelings about this one. On the one hand, I think, maybe, I probably shouldn't disable them, and on the other, I think I should be entitled to do a search on each one and decide whether I want it or not. And then, of course, there are those that are forced on you, regardless of whether or not ya want them. What do you guys think?

Microsoft OneDrive disabled
Well this one I am gonna disable because I don't have a OneDrive account. I don't even have a Microsoft account so I have no use for this one.

Windows Defender disabled
Probably best that I don't disable Windows Defender, right? Or is it? What exactly does it do? And I have a question about the first of the three options just above this one. Microsoft SpyNet membership disabled: What the hell's Microsoft SpyNet? I never signed up for that.

 

Can someone please reply? I've got more questions now than I did 3 hours ago. ShutUp10 is a lot more complicated than I'd thought it would be.

 

8 hours. Please, somebody answer.

 

12 hours and not a single reply. Wow. Just wow. I'm gonna have to go to bed soon. I have been staring all day at this ShutUp10 without doing a single other thing. A task I thought would take me a half hour at the most has cost me an entire day and I'm still nowhere near finished it yet.

 

Did you watch the video?

 

On the publisher's home page is another video.
https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

 

I'd actually already figured out all those basics for myself yesterday. Had to as no one was replying here. Thanks anyway, though. What I'm looking for now is help and advice from anyone who's actually used ShutUp10 themselves.

 

Jesse, forgive me for asking but do you enjoy using your computer or do you just spend time nit picking. you have a new computer, a new install everything should be running like clockwork but it isn't. I have said it before and I'll say it again "sit back, relax, and let your machine do its thing. It would see m

 

Apologies, my last reply was truncated but here is hat I was going to say by mucking about as you do you are causing more problems than you are fixing.. I think you should read this and digest: https://www.howtogeek.com/273513/why-you-shouldnt-use-anti-spying-tools-for-windows-10/