How to Limit Data Usage in Windows 11

[ammarjaved]

1. Navigate to the Settings app.
2. Select "Network & Internet."
3. Click "Data usage" on the top right side.

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4. Choose "Wi-Fi or Ethernet" from the drop-down menu next to the title "Enter data limit."
5. Set the limit by clicking the "Enter Limit" button.

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6. Choose a time period (Limit type), a monthly reset date/days till data expires, and a data limit (Unit as either MB or GB).
7. Click the "Save" button.

[#2 · Accepted solution]

no limit per app like net limiter 4, no limit for 5g modem, or any other conditional options to make useful....

[#3]

Feature not available for specific app

[#4]

can we block a given app to use a metered network? .... limit a app to background transfer? schedule/time based rules (like a torrent client: monday-friday from 09AM to 06PM limit download/upload)? ... there is a lot of work to be done

[#5]

@dvaguirre 

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[#6]

Is there a way to disable this tracker of programs accessing the network? It seems that this function captures similar details on a grander scale as browsers. It appears to have a reset statistics button, but it still keeps up to a month minimum. This doesn't seem to be a way to purge all information in one command. So, is the a way in the registry to turn this off?

Concern: How do we know if this information isn't being passed back and recorded at Microsoft against the user ids?

Please inform us if you can.

[#7]

@Mavcore How to Block a Program from Accessing the Internet Windows 11
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[#8]

@ammarjaved 

Thanks for responding.

Sorry no that is not what I meant. It has to do with the data usage counters that are kept for every network interface. Currently, the counters are updating with how much data has been transferred by a specific program or service. These counters can be cleared by schedule or manually. There are a few articles that explains how this is done both manually by executing scheduled .bat files that use PowerShell commands to clear these counters.

The command set executed are; "net stop DPS"; "del /f /s /q /a "%windir%\system32\sru\*"; "net start DPS".

What I was asking , "does there exist a registry that just turns it off" so we do not have to come up with all these external fixes. With the new Windows 11 release this are has not been touched and it looks exactly like Windows 10. We would like to know that we can have more control of our environment.

[#9]

You could also turn on "Metered connection" in your network (wi-fi) settings. It'll disable some apps to download extra non-required data (updates?).