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Windows Recall preview missing Windows 11 Education
Hi,
I meet all the requirements for the Recall feature, except that I’m using Windows 11 for Education, which isn’t managed by any organization—I just have its license key.
Will Recall still work in this case?
Thank you.
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- asada21805Copper Contributor
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 stepPerfect — 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
Click on WindowsAIRight-click in the right pane → New → DWORD (32-bit) Value
Name it exactly:
AllowRecallEnablement
Double-click it → set Value data = 1Click OK
Reboot
I hope it helps someone :)