I didn’t bother to register it, but downloaded installer and extracted contents with innoextractor and ran the main executable but blocked it checking the license… did not seem to mind and did not seem to restrict my use or nag me to register… i found many of the things it whinged about were the contents of features i use and need… like browser histories and recently accessed files and frequently used programs… has option to disable so called telemetry services but does not name them so we cannot be sure it’s safe to do so so skipped that… has a list of telemetry server domains to block via hosts file so decided… safest option is to just do that. I’m not overly paranoid over microsofts telemetry as much of the data collection is useful to the end user, so better to just let the telemetry services and servers believe we are just offline. Yes I know they could hard code a server to be addressed by just an IP number if they want and maybe they do, I don’t know… I may have already blocked it by my firewalls outbound rules or not… I don’t really care, as I said I’m not that paranoid, I’m not that important to Microsoft or the NSA/CIA/MI5 state criminals.
oh and re Theos report https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/981e63698f95b59d61f2b23509a4defb9b9267bcd2f7e04782ddd1f08d46ebeb?nocache=1
No reports of any known threats.