Recall AI Feature – Enterprise Lockdown & Privacy Hardening
Why it’s rare: Recall is controversial but enterprise admins need to know how to properly disable or configure it via registry, not just GUI .
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# Completely disable Recall (Enterprise method)
reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsAI" /v DisableRecall /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
# Disable snapshots but keep AI features
reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsAI" /v DisableSnapshots /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
# Filter specific apps from Recall (rare technique)
reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Recall\ApplicationFilter" /v "chrome.exe" /t REG_SZ /d "exclude" /f