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

OK, well I liked the phone and would jump back in a heart beat.

This stuff has been going on for the 40 odd years I have been covering it, MS have at least 1.4 billion users, they are doing something right - although from the outside it doesn't always seem so.

The point I tried to make earlier is, if you want to use Win11 suck it up. Sure we can all fiddle at the edges and switch stuff off when we can (shout out to Les Firch for his WinSetView - swirches off 'Group By' in explorer), but we work to MS's pleasure not them to us.

I've always tried to expend the energy I would use complaining looking for the solutions to my problems - certainly going to MS doesn't help.

But that's just me - but I do know that shouting the odds about it makes no difference - lets face it these were the people who went with the talking paper clip (oh and someone at the usablity labs told me it handn't been fully tested there - which chimes with some other app based decisions I heard about).

Just my 10 cents

C

Answer 2

How about no? I don't want this running on enterprise equipment in my environment. There are countless security risks to Copilot (any AI) and many that are still unknown. There are already plenty of examples to dictate the fact that for now, Copilot remains a security risk.

Answer 3

Just stop frenchie, you're embarassing yourself.

Answer 4

Generative AI is a misnomer and marketing gimmick.

When we are talking about these things we are talking about LLMs or Large Language Models. They primarily function by using large data sets to output a specific result in relation to those data sets. There are already problems with legal cases and coursework and other industries or individuals adopting these processes and having accuracy issues or even false results. Just over the last few years multiple legal cases were put under scrutiny because of the briefs that cited laws and cases that were fiction. Thats just one example of their unreliability.

I mentioned before the data sets. This can be images, words, books, numbers, music, movies, audio clips and more. Most companies that are responsible are paying to the rights for the data sets they are using to train their LLMs, a fair number are not though. They are literally scraping information and data without permission to use in their programs.

Given all that, its entirely valid to not want to use an LLM. Additionally, its incredibly dismissive and unhelpful to say its just the future in regards the the question/topic.

Answer 5

Yep. I can see that my solution is probably to ditch Chrome and use Edge instead, despite most of my cloud stuff being google and android. The problem that manifested which I was trying to solve was that Chrome was constantly hanging (infuriating). I discovered that when I killed Edge from running in the background this went away. Just not enough resources for both. So if I cannot stop Edge from starting up randomly I will have to switch to it. Futile, resignation.