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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.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (3 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] 7 points 2 months ago

Looking at you microsoft store rdp manager. Crashing explorer when I dare to leave something in the clipboard.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There is a setting somewhere IIRC (or at least there was) where you can separate file browser processes from the "main" explorer.exe process so you can kill individual Explorer windows but not the whole environment.

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

Yes. It is (or at least it was, don't know about Windows 11) in the Folder Settings.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 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

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

But but muh Linux is better.

Though to be fair, Linux has had some great developments!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I did kill explorer.exe many times ;)