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by downloading our Registry file to block Windows Copilot or by using our Group Policy files:
Hi Susan, please clarify the instructions. The first link gives: “Not Found–Sorry, but you are looking for something that is not here.”
The 2nd and 3rd links provided downloads, but what do we do with them and how do these downloaded files relate to the instructions that follow?
Also, do we do this before or after the current Windows update?
Thanks, cma
https://www.askwoody.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/DisableWindowscopilot.reg
Try that link.
The ADMX and AMDL are for firms with domain settings. If you are a standalone user you can skip them.
Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher
It hasn’t been installed yet. But…
You can’t remove it. You can’t uninstall it.
You can only disable it. That’s what the Reg file will do when it is installed. Possibly with the Dec. update. You are being proactive.
Some people don’t like being given access to a free, useful tool because they didn’t ask for it.
Free like shoved into your throat ?
Useful tool ? Who had decided the Copilot is useful ?
I don’t see its usefulness to me.
I understand and agree with the sentiments of “Don’t force an app on me, let me choose” and “Let me remove or disable a feature or app that I don’t like or don’t want” so I understand where @Alex5723 is coming from. I’m still curious though, even though I don’t want it and will never use it beyond testing to satisfy my curiosity. It sounds like playing with it, and then removing or disabling it from within the OS, will not be an option so deciding whether proactively block it is a decision to be made soon.
It’s all about choice isn’t it? Or in fact it’s all about the LACK of choice
It may well be a wonderful feature, for people who find it wonderful. I’m sure some people thought that Cortana was wonderful. Most of us turned that feature off without even bothering to fire it up, because we knew it wouldn’t be helpful to us personally (and also, because we were pretty sure that everything we said to it would get fed back into the endless cycle of personal data mining for fun and profit) (ditto CoPilot)
The main point though is that here’s another feature being foisted on us that we didn’t ask for, don’t want, and don’t have any choice over, apart from being able to hide it away in a dark corner of our hard drive and hope it never gets out. Even then they haven’t had the good manners to give us a simple “off” switch, we have to faff around editing the Registry or Group Policy
We, as individual people, will soon be not allowed to have an opinion
Open Group Police Editor (type gpedit in the searchbar and press Enter).
The Editor is a tree that works like File Explorer.
Navigate to Local Computer Policy -> User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Windows Copilot
In the right pane, double click on “Turn off Windows Copilot”
In the box that pops up, click on “Not Configured” the “Apply” then “OK”
Close the Group Policy Editor and reboot.
Group Policy is not available in the Home Edition, only in Pro Edition.
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