>As a privacy consciousness individual, >Potentinally there will be some sort of system or software that can monitor my activities * Don't save anything personal on that machine. * And don't do anything you would not agree to do publicly, on that machine. Other than that, as already suggested, run some debloat script but I still would not trust Windows. Even less if it was configured with an official spyware from my employer/university/whomever.