How to disable Recall on Microsoft Windows

Disable Microsoft's agressive deployment of spyware on your computer

Posted by Chris on Sun, Dec 15, 2024

Microsoft Copilot.

Microsoft Recall.

Microsoft Edge.

These are features I have zero interest in for my Windows computer. I have some commercial software that requires Windows… I should investigate getting them running with Wine. In the meantime…

Recall is a huge security risk. “But it only processes locally”. Microsoft has shown time and time again that you cannot trust anything they say. Next week…?

“I Am Altering the Deal, Pray I Don’t Alter It Any Further.”

Anyway, enough unfocused ranting.

Let’s turn off this privacy invading garbage.

Open a command prompt or Powershell as Administrator. Run this command:

DISM /Online /Disable-Feature /FeatureName:"Recall"

This will disable Recall. A reboot may be required. For bonus points a scheduled task should probably be created to run at least once a day. We know how Microsoft likes to re-enable and re-install programs and features that we’ve already disabled or removed.

Such dreck.

No quarter.

Thanks for reading.