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POP OS is decent too
Windows recall
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Windows insider preview featuring recall
No longer on Microsoft servers
Either they've decided to make it more secure first
Or to totally bin it
2nd option being unlikely though unfortunately
Will have to wait and see if it shows up again
On insider channel
No longer on Microsoft servers
Either they've decided to make it more secure first
Or to totally bin it
2nd option being unlikely though unfortunately
Will have to wait and see if it shows up again
On insider channel
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Yeah for the moment
It looks like it's suffered from a
It looks like it's suffered from a
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Revising a relatively old thread here, but any more news about Recall?
I looked online and it seems inconclusive as to whether Recall is now out or not. One source said to go to settings > privacy & security, then look for windows permissions on the main bit of the page. 2nd one down (after General) is Recall & snapshots. Go into there and apparently it can be turned off. Except that Recall & snapshots isn't listed for me. Doesn't mean it's not on my PC though as it could have just moved to another settings page or named differently.
I know Recall is meant to help with search, but file indexing, recently-used-files jumplists and browser history are all sufficient for me for searching my computer and web sites. Something that is recording my screen on top of this seems over the top for me.
I looked online and it seems inconclusive as to whether Recall is now out or not. One source said to go to settings > privacy & security, then look for windows permissions on the main bit of the page. 2nd one down (after General) is Recall & snapshots. Go into there and apparently it can be turned off. Except that Recall & snapshots isn't listed for me. Doesn't mean it's not on my PC though as it could have just moved to another settings page or named differently.
I know Recall is meant to help with search, but file indexing, recently-used-files jumplists and browser history are all sufficient for me for searching my computer and web sites. Something that is recording my screen on top of this seems over the top for me.
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Copy and paste went wonky
Those are what your pc has to meet
Don't think you will even see it as an option
If don't meet those
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Last i heard is you still need what MS are calling a Copilot+ PC (a CPU/PC with AI capabilities) and from what i understand that's not changed....yet.
The last video I watched said that some of the stuff that will enable it is present on all installs / updates to 24H2, since it has been integrated into some of the menus and other Windows components, but that the folders and links aren't active.
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Thanks guys 
It looks like I meet most of the requirement, but thankfully not all as I don't have an NPU (never heard of an NPU until now!) and I don't have a biometric login. My PC is definitely capable of some AI though as I run a Stable Diffusion server on it via Automatic 1111 / Webui Forge front-end. My RTX 3070 OC does the actual AI work.
It looks like I meet most of the requirement, but thankfully not all as I don't have an NPU (never heard of an NPU until now!) and I don't have a biometric login. My PC is definitely capable of some AI though as I run a Stable Diffusion server on it via Automatic 1111 / Webui Forge front-end. My RTX 3070 OC does the actual AI work.
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Looks like recall is back in preview testing
Windows preview 26120.2415 on the dev channel
Still need the previously mentioned requirements
and also secure boot must be enabled
and yes you can still do AI on your cpu and/or gpu
Just a NPU will be much more efficient i presume
since that's what it's designed for
Whereas cpu and gpu are designed with multiple usage scenarios
in their architecture
Windows preview 26120.2415 on the dev channel
Still need the previously mentioned requirements
and also secure boot must be enabled
and yes you can still do AI on your cpu and/or gpu
Just a NPU will be much more efficient i presume
since that's what it's designed for
Whereas cpu and gpu are designed with multiple usage scenarios
in their architecture
Recall is already in Windows 11 version 24H2 for all users and embedded in to Windows explorer.
Its also enabled by default but unsure to what level it does does anything or not.
Edit, video below
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It seems car crash stuff from MS at the moment.
Going back to the original post… yup, I’m one. I’m now out of windows. Running an old Mac, about to buy a Mac mini, and other machines on the house are on Linux.
Going back to the original post… yup, I’m one. I’m now out of windows. Running an old Mac, about to buy a Mac mini, and other machines on the house are on Linux.
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It's not straightforward to make the switch to Linux but things like this slowly but surely make it inevitable for me, I think. It's supposed to be opt-in and not sending anything to Microsoft but the truth is you just can't trust them and if they decide to flip a switch in an update, then they'll just do it anyway.
Had a machine running Windows 10 which I was more than happy with and had to continuously decline the upgrade to 11. Was away for a few weeks whilst it was running and when I came back, it was powered off. Turned it back on and it had decided entirely of itself to upgrade to Windows 11, without any prompts or authorisation to do so.
Have been tempted to buy one of the new Mac Minis as well but I'm reluctant to get caught up in the Apple ecosystem again. I remember the freedom of shaking it off a good few years ago, particularly relating to the cost of the storage and RAM upgrades, which are consistently unreasonable.
Had a machine running Windows 10 which I was more than happy with and had to continuously decline the upgrade to 11. Was away for a few weeks whilst it was running and when I came back, it was powered off. Turned it back on and it had decided entirely of itself to upgrade to Windows 11, without any prompts or authorisation to do so.
Have been tempted to buy one of the new Mac Minis as well but I'm reluctant to get caught up in the Apple ecosystem again. I remember the freedom of shaking it off a good few years ago, particularly relating to the cost of the storage and RAM upgrades, which are consistently unreasonable.
At work we had this issue a lot when Windows 11 first came out.
People where leaving their servers on (Windows 10 PCs) and over the weekend it would say to upgrade to Windows 11 and because no one was there to say "no" it updated anyway so when they came in Monday nothing was working or software was broken due to going to Windows 11
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My machine was a home server running very basic things like Plex and I was lucky that I wasn't impacted that way. But it definitely occurred to me that people would be caught out, in exactly the way you described.
Brute forcing shut downs and restarts for updates was one thing but to install a different OS, when it gets you out of the room for long enough, is actually ridiculous when you think about it.
I know this is far from a new issue as I've seen multiple people hacking their OS to prevent such updates but that in of itself is something that you shouldn't have to do.
Exactly, even more so when Windows 11 first came out the software was not ready for it so after all that sometimes issues where fixed and others it was rolled back to Windows 10 which added more down time for them.
Because it was their server none of the software on client PCs would work until the server was sorted out and its the last thing you need on a Monday morning as it was effecting multiple customers who where calling us with this issue.
Its like the recent update that was labelled as a security update to then realise it was an upgrade to Windows server 2025 and mislabelled by Microsoft