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Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency

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Re: Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency

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Post by lovethevoid »

brink wrote: post #3

Does anyone know any good "debloat" scripts to disable all these modern features of Windows 11 and bring me back to something that resembles the Windows I grew up with? I'm having a hard time keeping track of all of the registry keys and config settings I need to update to keep this crap at bay.

I've used Chris' winutil https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil due to being open source and a powershell script, you can see everything it's doing there's no magic. The recommended update schedule change is something a lot of other programs miss out on imo

Additionally for O&O shut up fans, it has the option to launch that too within the script's GUI, as neither has to be installed to run

Re: Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency

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Post by sharpshadow »

robotnikman wrote: post #7
kelsey98765431 wrote: post #2

Proton is able to run just about anything now, not just games. Stop using Microsoft Operating Systems where you can and mark them as needing replacement with real software in all your reports.

The day Proton or WINE can run the whole Adobe suite of products is the day I will probably switch to using Linux full time.

Photoshop runs in the browser[0], maybe the whole suit will follow.

0. https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/photoshop-web-faq.ht...

Re: Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency

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Post by kobalsky »

imbusy111 wrote: post #28
kelsey98765431 wrote: post #2

Proton is able to run just about anything now, not just games. Stop using Microsoft Operating Systems where you can and mark them as needing replacement with real software in all your reports.

From my experience, it's still not a 100% replacement. For example, there are no drivers for a pretty common steering wheel (Logitech G923). There is a driver for an older version of the wheel that kind of works, but no TRUEFORCE support. And even then, you have to mess with some low level details to make it work, send magic values to the hardware on plugging it in. I also noticed that games from Steam end up taking…

> From my experience, it's still not a 100% replacement

if it were a perfect replacemente, there would be no Windows.

for some it's good enough to endure the rough spots.

if you want to replace Windows and give yourself a gray area, and you can afford it, get a computer with 2 gpus and use a VM with VFIO and looking glass and you can contain its naughtiness away while enojoying it at native speed for gaming or whatever you want at 4k@120hz in a window or fullscreen inside Linux.

Re: Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

brink wrote: post #3

Does anyone know any good "debloat" scripts to disable all these modern features of Windows 11 and bring me back to something that resembles the Windows I grew up with? I'm having a hard time keeping track of all of the registry keys and config settings I need to update to keep this crap at bay.

Switch to Windows LTSC.

Re: Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency

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Post by [deleted] »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #47
BadHumans wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This doesn't deserve downvotes because it is entirely correct. Your average Windows user doesn't know about this let alone think about it. The number of people who know and care about this are an extreme minority.

It completely deserves downvotes because the question was addressed to Windows users of this forum, who are the sort of person who would think about it. There's no call to insult Windows users just because they use Windows.

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Re: Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency

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Post by Randor »

hypeatei wrote: post #21

So glad I switched to Linux and got away from this garbage. Now I have to convince my employer to also allow Linux on their workstations. Windows 7 was the last good OS from MSFT but even that had a bit of telemetry.

What Windows 7 telemetry are you referring to? Other than WER, there was no telemetry in Windows 7 to my knowledge. There was an update a few years ago that back ported telemetry to Windows 7 right before the final stage of extended support and final EOL.
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