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Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency (www.youtube.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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TLDR:
Windows 11 v24H2 and beyond will have Recall installed on every system. Attempting to remove Recall will now break some file explorer features such as tabs.

YT Video (5min)

Invidious Link

Original Github Issue

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

THIS IS WHY I AM STILL ON WINDOWS 10 AND DUALBOOTING LINUX

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Explorer has had so many dependencies attached to it that if even one of them sneezes, the entire desktop environment crashes and has to restart.

Actually insane when you think about it. Why the hell is a file explorer the root process of the desktop??????

I've only ever forced stopped thunar once and it was because I was messing with some thumbnail settings. Naturally the rest of my system worked as normal, as well as the other thunar windows open lol.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I had to kill nautilus a few times back in the day and nothing but the background remained until I restarted nautilus. But ymmv

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I remember them doing this with Internet Explorer back in the 90s.

"We can't remove this thing we don't want to remove! Look! It's hastily integrated with the OS! We can't remove it ever!"

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (5 children)

screw Microsoft..i hope people will consider to switch to Linux

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Yay am dualbooting linux with windows 10 but man I love the flexibility of linux.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm on win10. I use win11 at work and I'm fine with it but there's no way in hell recall is going on my home machine and equally no way in hell I'm getting a computer just to get win 11. Im fine using Linux. I will definitely do that before put with with this bs

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Good thing I don't use Tabs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Good thing I don't use explorer. (Free commander ftw!)

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (2 children)

how the fuck do you even begin making recall a dependency for explorer?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I can't say how. But I can guess why.

"Sorry, can't remove it. It's a system dependency"

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

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