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Microsoft unveils Recall, and it's really creepy

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Beat me to it ..

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The only use case I can think of for this is for Microsoft and the partners they share their users' data with. Or for corporations monitoring their employees' work computers, but there is already software that does that.

"If you've done nothing wrong, then you have nothing to hide." Yeah, but I still lock the door when I take a crap in a public stall.
 

Boss Mog

Member
Currently you have to opt-in to even have the "feature" there. As usual, a lot of hysteria over nothing, but I understand being cautious for the future with anything involving Microsoft and its history of "oops, we turned "X" on after the latest forced bi-weekly Tuesday update."

I've been running Windows 11 24H2 on four laptops and a desktop at home and Recall isn't installed on any of 'em.
I just did a clean install of Windows 11 24H2 on my new laptop and Recall was installed and active. I had to disable it manually.

Ok how do we turn this off? For things like this it seems like there is a way to “turn it off” but it’s not actually off.
To check if it's installed and active on your PC run the command prompt as administrator and type: dism /online /get-featureinfo /featurename:Recall
If it's installed and active then type this to turn it off: dism /online /disable-feature /featurename:Recall
 

chakadave

Member
I just did a clean install of Windows 11 24H2 on my new laptop and Recall was installed and active. I had to disable it manually.


To check if it's installed and active on your PC run the command prompt as administrator and type: dism /online /get-featureinfo /featurename:Recall
If it's installed and active then type this to turn it off: dism /online /disable-feature /featurename:Recall
This is probably in a deboater software. Not at least should and could be.

I like Titus tool for my windows 10 installs. Removes all sorts of BS.
 

gar3

Member
I just did a clean install of Windows 11 24H2 on my new laptop and Recall was installed and active. I had to disable it manually.
This is interesting because I just had to nuke my daughter's laptop and perform a clean install of 24H2 last Friday and Recall was not installed nor active. I am running Pro. Are you Pro or Home?
 
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