Summary
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Windows Recall is back to record your activities on your Windows 11 PC so that you can find them later. This is still a privacy problem for many.
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Windows 11 Pro users can permanently disable it using local group policy.
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Windows 11 home users can prevent running from running biometric authentication or device encryption or from running from running their PCs.
Remember Windows, AI-operated accessory that takes a regular screenshot of your screen so that you can ask it about the things you do in the past, back to good after (again) for privacy worries. Here is described how Windows 11 Pro users can disable it (againAnd hope for this time).
Remember a windows refresher
A lot has been written about Windows Recall Saga, but it is worth a quick recurrence: Microsoft announced that Windows 11 will start taking regular screenshots, while you use your PC so that it can be processed by AI, so that you can ask questions and see your prior activity.
Everyone turned his hands on this clear security and secrecy. It was then revealed that the screenshot (which would include your private PC uses, such as online banking, personal conversation, and so on) were stored unannounced, justifying the concerns where any app could read them.
Microsoft then recalled, while it made some twics and tried again. Then it returned, and more problems were indicated, and they went back to the drawing board. Now, recall is back again in its alleged final form. Users can now exclude specific applications and websites to be excluded, but it is almost certainly something that will not be known the most, or upset to.
While the Windows Settings app has an option to close recall (and even though “off” is now considered a default), some users want a more permanent solution to ensure that it is not back, especially when the operating system in Windows features is a strange habit of quietly enabling themselves after updates.
Of course, some people find this kind of thing useful and are not worried about potential hazards for their privacy. If you are one of this enviable care-free group, you can leave the rest of this article and go and enjoy yourself. When it comes to online secrecy, it is seriously, enjoying ignorance.
How to disable Windows Recall on Windows 11 Pro
The Pro version of Windows 11 lets you reach the local group policy editor (so do enterprise and education versions, but most people do not use them at home). This tool allows you to change twicks and configurations in your Windows system beyond being available in the control room or settings app.
Now being rolled out for real at that time, group policy settings are available to close it completely, and hopefully. Since the group policy is used by many enterprise institutions to control how the data is used for compliance reasons, it is unlikely that this setting will be overred by the future updates.
So, here, it is reported how to remember Windows using the local group policy: Right-click on the Start button, click on the run, enter the command “gpedit.msc” and then press OK to launch the local group policy editor.
Then, User Configuration> Administrative Template> Windows components> navigate the Windows AI to the left in the navigation tree.
Double-click to close Snapshot Saving of Snapshots for “use with recall to edit it, change its value, change its value to enable, then click OK to close the change. Close the local group policy editor, and you are. Remember goodbye.
If you are eager about the effect of changing this setting, you can read Official Microsoft Document for this,
Windows 11 Remember Work -Arounds for Home users
If you have not given additional money for Windows 11 Pro, you can still make sure that the recollection cannot run with some workarounds. You can close biometric authentication or disable device encryption and bittocker, which are all system requirements to remember the function.
To remove biometric authentication and disable Windows Recall, open the Windows Settings app from the Start menu, then navigate on accounts> sign-in options. Select each biometric option, then click on the “Remove” button.
Keep in mind that disabling better authentication methods and disc encryption may be a bad idea if you are using a portable device or working in a shared environment, where your Windows PC is not always 100% in your control.
Another option is to upgrade your PCs to meet the high system requirements of Windows recall, which is not all difficult.
Make windows more secure, secure and private
If you want to make Windows 11 more private, there are 6 features to disable, and additional 11 privacy settings to replace.
Your operating system is not the only thing that is trying to spy on you: spyware and malware are still abundant, and hackers and scammers are looking for new ways to provide you access to your equipment and accounts (or simply steal your money).
Be cautious, use the best-in-class antivirus, and follow the best practices. You can also give Linux an attempt-it sometimes takes a little technical information, but it keeps you under complete control of your computing experience.