Windows Recall preview missing Windows 11 Education

Copper Contributor

Dec 18, 2025

I was finally able to do it,

Things to consider:

Windows 11 Education should be standalone, not managed by your IT admin. which it was in my case then make sure you meet all other requirements and run

For some commercial environments, the Recall package doesn't automatically deploy, so to deploy Recall you'll need to manually enable the package, using the following PowerShell command: Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName "Recall" This will be fixed in a future update.

Details here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/client-management/manage-recall

Then one more step

Perfect — that’s exactly what I expected, and you’re in the right place now 👍
Let’s finish this cleanly and safely.

What your situation means (important)

You are at:

Computer
└─ HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
└─ SOFTWARE
└─ Policies
└─ Microsoft
└─ Windows

There is no WindowsAI key here.

👉 This means no policy has ever been set for Recall on this machine.
This is normal.

What you should do next (depends on your goal)
✅ If your goal is to ALLOW / ENABLE Recall via policy

(meaning: do not block it)

Right-click on Windows

Select New → Key

Name the key exactly:

WindowsAI