There's no hardware-available "processor ID" since ~2004. The serial on the box isn't stored anywhere.
> your Mainboard serial #s,
Which you already associated with your MS account. If you used a local account, it isn't queried.
> Hard Drive serial #s, along with your OS ID [...] This data is now going to all these "Data Research" companies.
How are you so sure? You see a single DNS query and assume that company gets everything on your hard drive? Why? Do you have any single concrete example of your hard drive's serial number being sent to Joe's Analytics Co. out of the blue?
There's no hardware-available "processor ID" since ~2004. The serial on the box isn't stored anywhere.
> your Mainboard serial #s,
Which you already associated with your MS account. If you used a local account, it isn't queried.
> Hard Drive serial #s, along with your OS ID [...] This data is now going to all these "Data Research" companies.
How are you so sure? You see a single DNS query and assume that company gets everything on your hard drive? Why? Do you have any single concrete example of your hard drive's serial number being sent to Joe's Analytics Co. out of the blue?