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Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 month ago by disguised_doge@kbin.earth to c/technology@lemmy.world

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TLDR:
Windows 11 v24H2 and beyond will have Recall installed on every system. Attempting to remove Recall will now break some file explorer features such as tabs.

YT Video (5min)

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Original Github Issue

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[–] Australis13@fedia.io 196 points 1 month ago (13 children)

Okay, this might be a non-issue: https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil/issues/2697#issuecomment-2403792309

To those that arrive here from any Youtube or Twitter posts, please know that disabling Recall via DISM works fine, and preserves the modern File Explorer (though some might consider this an anti-feature). CBS correctly disables it, and the disablement is preserved through reboots, just like with any other feature.

Edit: of course, the big problem here is that it's still present (even disabled) and hence malware could turn it back on without you realising. Ugh.

[–] RobertoOberto@sh.itjust.works 88 points 1 month ago (2 children)

A lot of unpopular "features" and behaviors used to have DISM, policy, or registry workarounds. And MS seems to love to kill those workarounds during later updates.

If MS isn't letting people uninstall it, there's a reason for it, and I'd be willing to bet that users will one day find that it has been magically re-enabled by an update.

[–] Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

There will 100% be a policy to disable it. Microsoft may shit on their retail users, but there's no way they'd force it on their enterprise clients. It's a security and compliance nightmare and they know it.

[–] doctortran@lemm.ee 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Problem is disabling it will likely be locked behind the Enterprise edition.

Kind of like the "Recommended" section in the Start menu. There is actually a way to disable that entirely...if you have an Enterprise license. There is no way to do it on any other version.

I said it was back when they took Group Policy out of the Home edition: the long term goal is to make truly controlling Windows a premium feature that only corporations can afford, and you see that with the slow elimination of many of those settings.

[–] b3an@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

So how can users band together to buy enterprise licenses from each other?

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago

If MS isn’t letting people uninstall it, there’s a reason for it,

🤑 and control

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