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WinSCP Usage Statistics

This feature is available only in the latest beta release.

Beginning with version WinSCP 5.0.7, WinSCP will include functionality to send to WinSCP team non-personal statistics about usage of WinSCP features. The only potentially personal information sent to WinSCP is IP addresses. Users can disable this functionality in the installer or anytime later in WinSCP preferences.

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WinSCP usage statistics help us improve future versions of WinSCP. Once sent to us, usage statistics are stored for analysis (except IP addresses) and made available to the core WinSCP team only.

Why is it very important?

We work very hard to make WinSCP reliable and useful. We also love improving WinSCP with every release. And last but not least, we provide WinSCP application to You for free and we want this to stay so!

However our resources and time are unfortunately very limited. We want to focus our effort on improving the right features for You. Thats is why we need to learn more about how You use WinSCP. Understanding user experience is very important for us, it means, Your experience using WinSCP is important too!

Please allow to send us your usage statistics data!

What usage information is collected and sent to us?

WinSCP collects and sends following static information about your system, counters and metrics.

You can review the information collected and ready for sending on Updates tab of Preferences dialog.

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Collected information is stored in Configuration/Usage section in the configuration storage.

Static information about your system and WinSCP installation

Name Description
WindowsVersion Version of Windows operating system.
WindowsProductName Windows product name (e.g. “Windows 7 Home Premium”).
DefaultLocale Default locale of your Windows installation (e.g. “0409” for English - United States).
Installed Time your version of WinSCP was installed (run for the first time).
InProgramFiles Is WinSCP installed in default Program Files folder?
Locale Locale (translation) of WinSCP.
FirstUse Time of first WinSCP use (of any version).
FirstVersion First version of WinSCP used.
CurrentVersion Current version of WinSCP.
AnyBetaUsed Ever used a beta version of WinSCP?
UpdateLastReport Time since the last reset of period counters.

Information about your WinSCP configuration

Name Description
MaxBookmarks Maximal number of bookmarks in any bookmark set.
StoredSessionsSCP Number of stored sessions using SCP protocol.
StoredSessionsSFTP Number of stored sessions using SFTP protocol.
StoredSessionsFTP Number of stored sessions using FTP protocol.
StoredSessionsFTPS Number of stored sessions using FTPS protocol.
StoredSessionsPassword Number of stored sessions with stored password.
StoredSessionsFolders Any stored session folder used?
Interface Interface used.
CopyParams Number of user defined transfer settings presets.
CustomCommands Number of user defined custom commands.
UsingLocationProfiles Using location profiles bookmark mode?
ExternalEditors List of configured external editors (e.g. “notepad,editplus”).

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