How To Disable Windows Copilot On Windows 11 / 10 

Yeah the uplodate is disaster

Microsoft and many other devs believe you should not be allowed to own the software that you purchase. MS is a mere shadow of their former selves.

@@Desert-edDave Not exactly . They carry on the legacy of the most arrogant man who ever lived: Bill Gates.

Same

Even with using local group policy editor (re: gpedit.msc) (With Windows 11 Home) it will not disable Microsoft Copilot, KEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot w/ REG_DWORD TurnOffWindowsCopilot w/ Value 1 is the *only* way to disable it currently.

Just Go To Add and Remove and click remove. I did and it's all gone the reg entry the files all removed just that simple

​@@OmnipotentEnt I'm sure the above comments were correct, however my Windows 10 Home Edition does include it now. My desktop just updated on 4/10/24 and I have the annoying Icon now which lead me to this video trying to turn it off. I followed the video for home edition skipped to 2minutes. I will note that windows 10 when I click on the type here to search on the tool bar. it showed a Window 's Copilot try it now feature and that brought up the website then a few seconds later after I closed that window. The widget has appeared on the right side of my screen with a vertical UI. Did I disable it right or has the new update made this harder now? @TheHowToGuy123 I'm clicking the 3 ... on the bottom going to settings and in the apps and notifications screen I'm clicking Copilot turning off all the slider bars. I clicked the restart browser screen and that did make it go away. To me this will only hide it. How do I completely disabled the program? So When Que'd it doesn't activate or is that not what this video showed how to do? I may look into how to un-install it in the future... #ThanksForYourTime #MayYourTaleEternallyBeRetold

if you right click the taskbar.. instead of it being in the settings its in the list that pops up when you first right click the taskbar..atleast it was for me and im on win 10

Wrong. Just updated windows 10 and I now have Copilot.

Nope, Microsoft forces it onto your system with an update. Friend and I are looking at maybe switching to Linux to get away from this rubbish. If it were any good, they wouldn't have to sneak it unannounced onto their users' systems, but they know that lol

Nope, you can just turn off copilot for just yourself if you want. Just added it to the video as an fyi.

I also still have copilot working after using the RegEdit on win 10 with the copilot preview

@@SmurfThugZZZ next time I buy a computer im avoiding Microsoft like it's cancer

@@SmurfThugZZZ Same issue for me

I am buying a new laptop with ubuntu and will never touch windows again ever. This is despite the fact that I have paid for MS office and some other Microsoft crap

This is really the best you can do to "remove" copilot. It's pretty baked into the OS. Copilot is web/server based so it virtually takes no disk space on your computer.

Just Go To Add and Remove and click remove. I did and it's all gone the reg entry the files all removed just that simple

ITs fucking sickening. Ready to lose my mind.

Just Go To Add and Remove and click remove. I did and it's all gone the reg entry the files all removed just that simple

I'd recommend double checking that you've spelled the keys correctly in regedit.

I had to go back in and delete everything and redo it (even though everything was correct). It worked on the second attempt. 🙅‍♂

it's perfectly normal that user settings reverts to default settings, After a windows update. Don't you understand that Copilot is your new online buddy, Or at least that's what Microsoft wants.

@@kevinduran7698 well im done. Im getting a system 76. They are far from perfect but there is NONE of this fighting over who’s boss of your own machine and accessing the web. I had one before but bought this cheap one not knowing how greatly things had changed. I just spent HOURS getting my firefox back just bcuz of the principal of the thing. Let me preach, the folks at 76 answer the phone, talk to you, walk u through issues. They are based in the US! They cost too much! But the peace of mind!

Type Regedit in the search bar. You have to manually click registry Edit in the box on the right side at the top. Im on W10 home edition.

Same here. Did it twice. Still there. Maybe because I'm using windows 10. This kind of stuff seems to make it seem like we don't really OWN our computers, does it?

@@hamradioeconomystyle48 I ended up getting it to work, then broke my laptop 3 days later and had to get a new one. Now im on most recent windows and you can turn it off.

Do you work for Microsoft or something? Its like Electric vehicles, pushing for bullshit nobody wants or asked for.