I caught my Windows apps phoning home with one free tool

I had closed the apps I was actively using, finished writing for the day, and left my HP laptop sitting at what looked like an idle desktop. There wasn't much happening on screen, but that doesn't mean Windows had stopped talking to the internet. Browsers linger in the background, cloud apps keep syncing, services check for updates, and Windows has plenty of networking work of its own.

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