Telemetry

DeskDrawer glossaryUpdated 7 August 2026

The claim is unusually strong, so it is worth stating precisely. DeskDrawer contains:

  • no analytics SDK
  • no crash or error reporting service
  • no update check of its own — updating is the Microsoft Store's job
  • no account system, sign-in or licence phone-home
  • no advertising identifier
  • no network connections initiated by the application

The only diagnostics that exist are in error.log, a local file that goes nowhere unless you attach it to a report yourself.

The cost of this is real and worth being honest about: the developer genuinely does not know when DeskDrawer breaks on your machine. That is why Support matters more here than for a typical product. The reasoning is in Shipping with no telemetry, and what it costs.

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