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Microsoft’s more secure Windows Recall feature can also be uninstalled by users


Microsoft gives Windows Recall users more control.

Recall was originally supposed to debut with Copilot Plus PCs in June, but Microsoft has spent the past few months reworking the security behind it to make it an opt-in experience that you can now fully remove from Windows if you want. “The app outside the virtualization-based enclave is running in an anti-malware protected process, which would basically require a malicious kernel driver to even access,” says Weston. Weston confirms that Recall was reviewed as part of the company’s Secure Future Initiative that was introduced last year, but being a preview product, it apparently had some different restrictions.

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