If you’re like me, you always install the latest updates for whatever OS you happen to be running. But if you’re running Windows 11 and you’ve installed version 24H2, then you got something extra that you may not like. You got Microsoft Recall which is Microsoft’s AI “feature” that takes screenshots of literally everything that you do just in case you need it later. Now if this bothers you, and it should regardless of what Microsoft may say about it, here’s how you can confirm that it is running (more on this later) and how you can disable it. To check to see if it is enabled, do the following:
- Click on start
- Search for “cmd” (without the quotes)
- Look for and click on the option “run as administrator”
At this point a black window should appear. From there you need to see if Recall is enabled. You do that by typing this command into the black window:
Dism /Online /Get-Featureinfo /Featurename:Recall
If you see that the feature is enabled, you can disable it by typing in this command into the black window:
Dism /Online /Disable-Feature /Featurename:Recall
Then to be safe you should re run the first command that I gave you to ensure that it is actually disabled.
Now if for whatever reason you want to enable this feature, and to be frank I am not sure why you would want to, here’s the command that re-enables Recall:
Dism /Online /Enable-Feature /Featurename:Recall
Now every PC that is running Windows 11 24H2 has this “feature” installed. But Microsoft says that this “feature” is only enabled on AI enabled PCs. That may be true at the moment. But I can easily see Microsoft enabling this feature on every PC running Windows 11 and doing it silently as they have a bit of a habit of doing that. Thus you may want to periodically check to see if Recall got turned on via a software update every few months or so.
If you want to find out more about Recall and why I am no fan of it, click here for that. Now to be fair to Microsoft, they have pulled the feature to rework it. And they swear that it’s not as bad as it’s made out to be. But that still doesn’t change my mind about it. Thus in my opinion, you’re better off turning it off and leaving it off.
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If You’re Running Windows 11 24H2, This Is How You Stop Recall From Running On Your PC
If you’re like me, you always install the latest updates for whatever OS you happen to be running. But if you’re running Windows 11 and you’ve installed version 24H2, then you got something extra that you may not like. You got Microsoft Recall which is Microsoft’s AI “feature” that takes screenshots of literally everything that you do just in case you need it later. Now if this bothers you, and it should regardless of what Microsoft may say about it, here’s how you can confirm that it is running (more on this later) and how you can disable it. To check to see if it is enabled, do the following:
At this point a black window should appear. From there you need to see if Recall is enabled. You do that by typing this command into the black window:
Dism /Online /Get-Featureinfo /Featurename:Recall
If you see that the feature is enabled, you can disable it by typing in this command into the black window:
Dism /Online /Disable-Feature /Featurename:Recall
Then to be safe you should re run the first command that I gave you to ensure that it is actually disabled.
Now if for whatever reason you want to enable this feature, and to be frank I am not sure why you would want to, here’s the command that re-enables Recall:
Dism /Online /Enable-Feature /Featurename:Recall
Now every PC that is running Windows 11 24H2 has this “feature” installed. But Microsoft says that this “feature” is only enabled on AI enabled PCs. That may be true at the moment. But I can easily see Microsoft enabling this feature on every PC running Windows 11 and doing it silently as they have a bit of a habit of doing that. Thus you may want to periodically check to see if Recall got turned on via a software update every few months or so.
If you want to find out more about Recall and why I am no fan of it, click here for that. Now to be fair to Microsoft, they have pulled the feature to rework it. And they swear that it’s not as bad as it’s made out to be. But that still doesn’t change my mind about it. Thus in my opinion, you’re better off turning it off and leaving it off.
Happy new year!
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