How do I disable Copilot and all Other AI functionality in Windows 11 PRO

Question

I've tried the recommended steps for creating then setting the value for WindowsCopilot to 1, but the AI functions still return.

Help please.

Dave

Answer 1

If you really have stepped out of the coverstion, that would be a good thing. You are apparently a young person who has yet to learn that there are many in the government and business that are out to gather information about you, to be used later. That is no conspiricy theory, that is fact. FYI, look up where the term conspiricy theroy comes from. It may be eye oopening for you. It is deragetory to call someone a conspircy theorist. Especially when their concerns are accurate. When you get older and wiser, there will be young "know-it-alls" that will do the same to you. You have much to learn about the world around you.

Most of us like MS for their OS and Office apps. We don't want to use anythng else. MS just needs to stick to what they do well and quit using resources on phony AI. AI is a joke. There is nothing intelligent about AI. It's just the latest buzz word much like "cloud".

Answer 2

Goodness, cloud is a buzz word and AI is a joke... And presumably you are alluding to the 'conspiracy theory' that the CIA 'popularised' the term, in fact that seems unlikely.

I am not a new boy, I've been covering the tech industry for 40 odd years - prior to that I was working on mainframes.

No AI isn't a joke, and it WILL be present in Windows and loads of other stuff. And yes the industry is hoovering up terabytes of data on us. Although I do suggest whining about it will not make it stop. And I love the idea that you call the youngsters 'know it alls' and how they have much to learn, and yet your solution is "MS just needs to stick to what they do well and quit using resources on phony AI." Really? That's the solution? You are telling Microsoft what it needs to do? Good luck with that.

Meantime in the real world, the industry will scrape more and more info about us, the only way to reduce the amount of data it grabs is to either mitigate as much as you can (a bit like the reason for this thread) or not use any of the products. Telling people you see as newcomers that they need to get older and wiser, is, y'now, and I'm only guessing here, not going to help.

Answer 3

Copilot can be disabled, which is what I did, because I have a subscription to ChatGPT-4, but it cannot be removed, because artificial intelligence is now part of the operating system and, increasingly, part of everyday life. So disable it if you wish, however, I think the better choice is to learn how to live with it, because artificial intelligence, for better or worse, is the future, and no one can escape the future.

 Thanks, Nostradamus.

Answer 4

Copilot made the fan in my HP desktop go nuts - speed up, slow down continuously. The registry edit resolved that problem. I don't use Edge, so no issue there.