{"id":452,"date":"2026-02-21T18:02:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T01:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csispecialist.com\/?p=452"},"modified":"2026-02-21T18:02:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T01:02:46","slug":"permanently-disable-microsoft-recall-with-dism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csispecialist.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/permanently-disable-microsoft-recall-with-dism\/","title":{"rendered":"Permanently Disable Microsoft Recall with DISM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Toggling Recall off in Settings leaves the feature installed and eligible for re-enablement via future updates. Removing it at the DISM level is cleaner and sticks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Requires:<\/strong> Copilot+ PC, elevated prompt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\">DISM \/online \/Disable-Feature \/FeatureName:&#8221;Recall&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reboot if prompted, then verify:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\">DISM \/online \/Get-FeatureInfo \/FeatureName:&#8221;Recall&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You want State : Disabled with Payload Removed \u2014 anything less and the binaries are still on disk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Enterprise Deployment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Drop this into your Intune remediation, GPO startup script, or Autopilot provisioning flow:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">powershell<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\">$state = (DISM \/online \/Get-FeatureInfo \/FeatureName:&#8221;Recall&#8221; | Select-String &#8220;State&#8221;).ToString()<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\">if ($state -notlike &#8220;*Disabled*&#8221;) {<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DISM \/online \/Disable-Feature \/FeatureName:&#8221;Recall&#8221; \/NoRestart<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\">}<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For offline image prep, swap \/online for \/image:&lt;mount_path&gt; to bake it out of your WIM before deployment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Why Bother?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recall snapshots everything \u2014 banking portals, healthcare apps, credentials mid-entry \u2014 and indexes it in a local SQLite database. On-device storage is the current model, but any LPE or physical access scenario turns that database into a full activity log handed to an attacker. For environments under HIPAA, GDPR, or SOC 2, disabling it isn&#8217;t optional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To reverse: DISM \/online \/Enable-Feature \/FeatureName:&#8221;Recall&#8221; \u2014 though if the payload was removed, expect a reach-out to Windows Update or installation media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toggling Recall off in Settings leaves the feature installed and eligible for re-enablement via future updates. Removing it at the DISM level is cleaner and sticks. Requires: Copilot+ PC, elevated prompt. DISM \/online \/Disable-Feature \/FeatureName:&rdquo;Recall&rdquo; Reboot if prompted, then verify: DISM \/online \/Get-FeatureInfo \/FeatureName:&rdquo;Recall&rdquo; You want State : Disabled with Payload Removed &mdash; anything less &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/csispecialist.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/permanently-disable-microsoft-recall-with-dism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Permanently Disable Microsoft Recall with DISM&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,2],"tags":[100,99],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-10-11","category-windows-general","tag-microsoft-recall","tag-remore-recall"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csispecialist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csispecialist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csispecialist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csispecialist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csispecialist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csispecialist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"https:\/\/csispecialist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csispecialist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csispecialist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csispecialist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}