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Leaked Windows 11 Feature Shows Copilot Moving Into File Explorer (www.techrepublic.com)
submitted 1 week ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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God Damn it MS

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[–] hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 52 points 1 week ago (5 children)

How to disable Copilot

For Pro, Enterprise, or Education usersPress Windows + R, type gpedit.msc, and press Enter. Navigate to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Copilot. Double-click "Turn off Windows Copilot," select "Enabled," then click Apply and OK. Restart your computer for the changes to take effect.

For Home usersHome users without access to the Group Policy Editor can disable Copilot via the Windows Registry. Press Windows + R, type regedit, and press Enter. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows. Create a new key named WindowsCopilot if it does not exist. Inside this key, create a new DWORD (32-bit) value named TurnOffWindowsCopilot and set its value to 1. Restart your computer to apply the change.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 21 points 6 days ago

and they say linux is complicated.

[–] olenkoVD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago

There is no way they have an option named TurnOffWindowsCopilot that turns off the Windows Copilot

[–] Nelots@piefed.zip 36 points 1 week ago

Was expecting to see "install Linux" in one of the spoilers. Nice to see actual help.

[–] mech@feddit.org 18 points 1 week ago

Protip: Export the registry key into a .reg file, write a script that installs it and put that in autostart. Otherwise every major update will revert your edit.
But if you're at that point, even Slackware will give you fewer headaches.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How to disable Copilot

Delete Windows.

Seriously, you think those switches will keep working?

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 10 points 6 days ago

They will for Enterprise - their only paying clients.

Home is fucked.

Pro is probably soon to be fucked.