How to Remove Bing and CoPilot from Windows 11 Start, Search, Taskbar and Microsoft Edge
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- If you want to remove Bing and the New CoPilot from your Windows 11 Desktop, Taskbar, Start Menu, Search, and the Microsoft Edge Web Browser then this video is exactly what you need. I'll also show you how to change your default Tabs to Google or any other site you like so that way, Bing is gone from your life and CoPilot becomes No-Pilot.
This video is new and updated for the latest version of Windows 11 and the latest versions of Edge as of 27 October 2023.
You will learn how to:
Remove the CoPilot icon from the Windows 11 Taskbar
Remove CoPilot Completely from Windows 11
Remove all Bing Searches from the Start Menu
Remove the Bing Icon from the Start Menu
Remove Bing as the default search engine in Edge (and replace it with Google)
Make Google your Microsoft Edge Homepage
Make Google the default for New Tabs in Microsoft Edge
Fix it if Google isn't available as a choice in the Drop Down in Microsoft Edge
1:35 - Remove the icon from the Search bar in the Taskbar
2:55 - Remove the Web Searches in the Start Menu & the BING icon in the Start Menu using 'DisableSearchBoxSuggestions'
4:40 - Remove the CoPilot icon from the Microsoft Edge Browser
5:40 - Remove the CoPilot icon from the Windows 111 Taskbar
7:00 - Permanently Remove CoPilot from Windows 11
10:10 - Make Google Your Homepage in Microsoft Edge
11:32 - Make Google the default for New Tabs in Microsoft Edge
13:06 - How to Fix it if Google isn't available as a choice in the Drop Down in Microsoft Edge
14:54 - If Microsoft Change it, I'll fix it, so don't forget to subscribe
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I watched your other video a while back and it helped me a lot. Since Copilot came out I was actually going to message and ask if you would update that video and I couldn’t believe you just posted it. Freaking legend. Everything you said worked exactly as you demonstrated. 1000% awesome.
I’m so happy it worked for you. Thanks for the positive feedback. I try hard to get these things out but a friendly nudge is also appreciated at times 😊
This is the BEST teacher on RUclips. And I'm a trainer and assessor myself.
I subscribed immediately.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! Microsoft is beginning to feel like that old boyfriend who just keeps SENDING YOU THINGS YOU DON'T WANT! Thank you for your clarity in explanation as well.
You are most welcome. Thanks for taking the time to share such positive feedback. I really appreciate it. Have a fantastic day!
Thanks!
Why thank you very much for the tip Jeff. I really appreciate it. Have a fantastic day!
i absolutly HATE windows bloat and im ethically anti-AI. how its legal to install something without giving the option to remove it is beyon me. thank you so much for your help! great vid!
A huge Thank You! Soon I will be forced to use Windows 11 as my faithfull Dell workhose Optiplex cannot be updated to Windows 11 pro. So I'm trying it out on a new everyday laptop and I really do I really want to get rid of the annoying Bling and Copilot. Thank you for your clear explanation. You make it seem so easy. Will be following you
Thank you very much. Great video, easy to follow for someone like me (who knows nothing about tech), and sorely needed. Tired of MS ramming all this down my throat. Subscribed.
You’re welcome, so glad to have helped. And thanks for subscribing, I really appreciate it. Have a fantastic day!
Very clear and thorough explanation. I went through it and was easily able to get rid of bing, and the copilot icon in the taskbar. BUT, when I attempted to go further....went to "start" and then hit "gp" to cue group edits, this never came up....even if I typed in the full gpedits. It simply said "nothing found." So, unfortunately that's as far as I could go, and was not able to remove copilot altogether.
Are you using Windows Home edition? This is a pro only option.
Same
@@TLTechLife Is there a non-pro option to this?
@@capNhand Heard there is, on another channel. But the guy said he's making a video for it. Maybe you need to search for how to do it, outside of RUclips.
This is gold! I would suggest that slowing the playback speed to .75 in the video options helped me to follow along better and apply changes in real-time but must caveat that I am slow and this dude is fast AF! Thanks for the help! Subbed!
Hi Ben, thanks for the feedback and the sub, I really appreciate both. Sorry I do talk fast, mostly I’ve had feedback in the past to speed things up as people hate waiting nowadays and sadly the speed it up messages vastly outweigh the slow it down ones. But all feedback is good and I’m glad you enjoyed the video. Many more to come my friend. Have a fantastic day!
Excellent video. All the instructions were super clear and accurate. Thank you so much. Yippee, no more Bing, Co-pilot. Very pleased.
Bloody brilliant! Thank you sir!
Thank you SO much for this video. Beautifully explained for Windows users. Is there a similar video for Mac users? I've tried to remove/disable Sales Copilot/suggestions from my personal Microsoft Outlook subscription using Mac and am at wits ends. Any help is much appreciated.
You are very welcome. Thanks for leaving such a nice comment. I do have a Mac and I’m happy to help. Happy to have a FaceTime chat with you or something similar and work it out. Have a great day!
All of it worked. 'cept completely removing copilot from task bar settings. I have win 11 home. So, I found the script to create a .bat file and got gpedit.msc up and running. I have copilot disabled in group policy editor. I have signed out, back in even rebooted. It wont go away. Running Win 11 Home v. 23H2. Awesome vid. Thanks
he mentions in his video to hit enable the button because its enabling it to be removed. Not sure if that makes since but i thought id comment.
Thank you for your video. That copilot, and bing stuff drove me nuts!
My pleasure stormy. You have a great stormy night
@@TLTechLife Still driving me nuts - There isn't a GPEdit in Win11 Home version - Now what?
I tried the registry editior metro and still it didn’t disable this..
fucking hell. This is so annoying. I don’t want any stinky ai chats or bing icons in my search window. This is just a minor issue right, but it’s showing of the general trend. I am starting to consider switching to Linux .
"All your data are belong to us" - Gates
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I do not see "sidebar" to remove copilot. Any others suggestions?
Other than that good tutorial, up to the point & clear. Ty.
Do you have the latest version of edge?
@@TLTechLife Idk. I removed copilot from taskbar, that's good for now. Ty.
@@TLTechLife I was using Chrome. Yes, I see Sidebar on Edge. Ty.
all I can add is another heartfelt many thanks. Had to pause and rewind but all worked out excellently and I learnt a bit.
Thank you so much for the feedback and I’m glad it helped you. Hope you have a fantastic day!
Thanks for this. Managed to do it. I have also got, as of today, another mystery. On my Windows 11 login screen, the writing on either side of the screen and in the middle under the date, is no long in English but what looks like Japanese! Language in everything else is fine. Fortunately I login with a pin. How do I get English back to that first screen? Any suggestions please.
Hello, I’m actually not in front of a windows pc atm, but off the top of my head I’d guess you’ve accidentally changed your default language. Again off the top of my head I’d say login with your pin and do the following: Select Start > Settings (or press win key and the letter ‘i’> Time & language > Language & region and add back English. Again this is all from memory so those instructions may not be completely accurate, but I’d guess this will somewhat solve your problem.
@@TLTechLife Thanks. I've actually checked these settings and they are all correct. It's really very odd.
Brilliant sir! More than grateful for this post popping up in first 3 results of my Google search; "how to disable Bing & CoPilot Preview". Though I'd already switched out browser & search engine, I still had microsoft Edge/Bing/CoPilot trying to be invasive & annoying. I'm more than opposed to having things I don't want/choose/need crammed down my throat, & having need to quickly purchase a backup laptop, they made it seem as though I had no choice but to allow them to install everything, before I could switch it all over to another browser & search engine? I'm now certain that's not true, yet I'd had my old laptop for many years, so I'd forgotten about the wily ways they rope you in, errgghh. Had to do a clean up.
Anyhow, enough whining from me, since I just meant to say THANK YOU.Sam in AZ
F Bing and all of Microsoft's spyware. Thanks Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate!
Nooooooo worries. Get rid of that spyware 😂
Thank you, very easily to understand and walking through the step by step process to remove copilot.
Thanks for this, your next video has to be how to get rid of top apps. It's not accurate as I think I have used the snipping tool about 3 times, plus I don't want my secondary browser showing up in the results. 😉
My pleasure. I do have in the works a video on how to remove most of the apps on windows, especially those you cannot remove via the conventional add/remove methods. If there’s any you’d specifically like me to mention then ask away. I’m all for suggestions and helping out viewers 😊
Thanks for demonstrating the Extension to have a custom New Tab: now I *do* have what I consider to the "correct" New Tab, i.e. *about:blank* … but it's still insane that I have to install an _Extension_ just to do that (!).
You’re welcome and I agree, a pretty ordinary way to have to get around this.
Liked them both. Very well done sir. Thank you very much.
and easy enough for me to follow.
You’re very welcome. Glad you liked them. Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it.
Thanks but the group policy editor fix isn't working for me as of Windows 11 23H2 Home edition with gpedit added
Fantastic. I would seriously have paid you for this. Instructions where straight forward and easy. Your videos are amazing sir. Merry Christmas! (12/24/23)
I accept donations haha. But seriously thank you for the nice feedback, I’m glad to help. Have a Merry Christmas and a prosperous safe New Year!
What if folks don’t have the Pro version and do not have Group Policy, then what? Thanks for the great content!
Thanks for the video. I followed your video finding all the icons missing but bing still appears. I re-ran the video at registry edit -- went back to where explorer was entered only to find under explorer was windows copilot. I went in to windows copilot changed the (1) to (0). Restarted machine - bing came back.
Great video, any ideas how to get rid of "Search Bing in Sidebar" from the context menu when you right click on certain things?
Great video!! Thanks!! I uninstalled Edge all together, after a minor regedit. Afterwards when something would try to launch Edge, widows threw an error saying ie is not supported anymore. LOL. Now I will install Firefox, with the Ghostery extension for worry free web surfing on my terms, not bing, edge, cp, screwgle, or facetwit. Cheers!!
Dude big thanks to you.. I just went rage mode on that because it just invade my computer and I couldn't get rid of it
My pleasure. Glad to have helped. Have a great day!
Thank you thank you thank you . I needed this today because after I did the Tuesday Security Updates on my Win 10 22H2 PC Microsoft somehow upgraded my PC to Win11 24H2 (which I thought wasn't available yet ???) So , using your Video I managed to remove/Disable all the items that worried me about Win11 .I'm now Subscribed and will be following your channel . Cheers !
This was one of the simplest easiest instructions I've seen regarding bing and co-pilot. Thank you so much! Super easy to follow.
Thank you. Somehow, co pilot is still showing on my windows 11 pc. When i click start, and click in the address bar the icon is still there. I followed all the directions. I even followed Bing's directions to remove it.
Thank you , Although I have not had time to do all of it as yet that awful icon which was lurking with intent on the task bar has gone with thanks to you and when I get time I will finish the job, I have liked and subscribed you are a legend official.
Followed your great steps. Although i had to enable group policies manually i was still able to enable turing co-pilot off. However, even after reboot, co-pilot came up while using my touchpad mouse. There a "gesture" there i don't know how to remove and it still brings up co-pilot. Thoughts?
This video is a life saver
Because I was struggling to get rid of the Copilot icon from the Windows Search menu and Edge (despite WinKey + C still opening Edge)
But I can rest easy with Copilot essentially nuked from my PC, and I have Registry backed up into an external file I can just import on each update, should each update revert certain registry files
Thank you for the feedback. Glad I could help. Have a fantastic day!
I have 11 Home and can't go the "edit group policies" route, but I found a solution... In the Registry Editor, I added a key: Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot then added a Dword "TurnOffWindowsCopilot" and set it to 1. It worked! Not only on mine, but on my wife's Win10 (which somehow had Copilot installed there). Hope this helps someone.
This actually worked for me after group policies didn't. Now Win+C just opens Bing. I have Home edition and did some hacking to install Group Policy Editor from the existing files (all Windows PCs HAVE the files and can technically run the program) but there's no indication it actually works lol, maybe because I am using Home edition and there's some nonsense permission still blocking edits from having any effect.
Good ish! Thanks so much!
My absolute pleasure. Have a fantastic day!
thanks man! a lot of people needs to know this
Judging by the reactions a lot of people have strong opinions about Bing and edge and copilot. Happy to have helped.
Will this work for Windows 10?
I like to keep Bing, but get rid of copilot. I'm not sure if this will remove both Bing and Copilot, does it remove Bing and Copilot or only Copilot ?
If you only perform the sections listed in the description then you can remove whatever you like.
Bing was removed using instructions from his last video. Windows updated and it came back and is now refusing to leave. Followed instructions but there it remains in my start menu. I don't know if anything has changed since this video was posted. I look forward to a follow up if one's in the cards.
Hello sir, please continue your series in SCOM.
I'm not sure if MS changed things but after editing the policy and signing out/back in Copilot is still available as an option in Taskbar settings (disabled) and if I hit Win-C it re-installs it then it's back.
Great instructions, thank you !!
I'm so sorry, I try to respond to all comments and somehow, I missed yours. You are welcome and I thank you for taking the time out of your day to leave your feedback. Have a fantastic day!
I followed you direction on disabling copilot, by hitting enable, sign out and sign in. When I log back in, windows + C shows it is still there. I watched your video over and over so I am sure I did every step. Any ideas? Thanks
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Thanks very much for the sub and the really great feedback, I appreciate it a lot. Have a fantastic Father’s Day yourself!
Thanks, so basically a search engine dressed up at AI Copilot. Microsoft really doesnt give us enough credit. Thank You for your efforts sir.
GPEDIT section wasnt recognized on my computer so I couldn't get the AI out, only off the task bar. Any suggestions please?
Thanks for the how to. I got as far as removing copilot icon. But could not find the GP Editor. No results in Finder.
If you have the "Home Edition", Group Policy Editor isn't there to find....
can you please do one for windows 10? We have co-pilot preview and it messes up the resolution AND it messes up the desktop monitor resolution.
thank you. I am on 7:13 of your video and stuck. I can not find gpedit anywhere. When I search it still brings up Bing to search, but the icon is gone. I am still trying to uninstall copilot
Me too im stuck just brings up bing search.
what do I do if gpedit or Group doesn't bring up an option for group policy in the search bar?
For removing Copilot... I have regular Windows 11. I do not have access to the Group Policy Editor. Any alternatives?
Type on Google Search Bar: How to Disable or Remove Copilot from Windows 11 Via Registry Editor.
It would be nice if you included the path you are using on the comment or transcript.
u sir earned a sub!!
You are very welcome and thanks for subbing I really appreciate that a lot.
GPEDIT only works if you have win11 pro, how do you remove it from the home version?
yeah it won't let me findd gpedit every time i type it up it only brings me to a web search
changing the registry didnt work fro me brand new clean install window 11 pro still searches from start menu.
ty, gpedit doesnt come up on my start when i search it
Video starts at 6:40
I use Windows 11 Home. Removing copilot did not work for me either? I followed everything you said and checked to be sure Windows Copilot is enabled which it is. Any ideas why it's still there?
Group policy isn’t supported in Windows 11 home so you wouldn’t have been able to perform that step. You can still hide the icon though.
Hi, I couldn't find gpedit because I use Windows 11 Home, but I was able to find a different method.
You just have to open Registry Editor again, and go to the same folder. But this time make a new key called WindowsCopilot, and a new DWORD called TurnOffWindowsCopilot. Same thing as disabling Explorer, so set it to 1 then restart your computer.'
Hopefully you see this comment and pin it so that other Windows 11 Home users can see it!
OMG thank you! This did the trick for me too with windows 11 home.
At 7:00
I did it all but I was just wondering how...for a lack of a better term...how permanent is Copilot/Recall now removed off my system? Once it's been removed/disabled is there a chance that it might just "turn on" or reinstall itself?
Hello, yes that is a very real and very likely possibility. MS are heavily invested in this and as such want you to use it, even if you don’t. So future patches are highly likely to reinstall features you remove. That said if (and more likely when) this happens let me know and if I can find a fix then I will update this video with a new one. To me personally I don’t really mind that it’s there and I rarely use it myself. But I understand people have issues with MS simply bolting in new things you don’t ask for and people wanting more control over their system. Thanks for watching and the great question.
Absolutely brilliant, thanks !
My pleasure Mike. Thanks for watching and sharing your positive feedback. Have a great day mate!
Gp edit does come up for me ?
Same
Same . it does not come up.
Thank you for the help
You’re very welcome!
¡Muy buen tutorial, muchas gracias! Aprovecho para comentar mientras reinicia mi laptop superlenta 😂
It's a real shame that you need the Pro version of Windows to access the Group Policy editor and disable copilot altogether. I know that there are other ways to get around this in the Home Editions but after experiencing the complete borking which was Windows 11 on a latptop for over a year, I don't think that installing third-party hacks would be beneficial for me nor the laptop.
Thanks. You've saved me time from searching why I couldn't access Group Policy Editor. There are ways to get cheap windows keys, it's unfortunate that we even have to do all this nonsense in the first place.
I use to have these same problems there are commands that you can type in to fully enable gpedit.msc (group policies) while still running a home edition of windows, i used these quite frequently rather than just wiping a system and puting pro onto it. Hope this helps.
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U actually can install a group policy on non-pro versions.... well, you could on windows 10 anyway.
@@Blinkerd00dwait, what? How’s that?
Is User configuration available in windows 11 Home edition, It appears not to be?
I cannot open with gpedit. What can I do instead?
gpedit isn't yielding any group policy results, please help
Can you please make a video how to enable Group Policy? I’ve tried several different ways via other videos and it will not enable it.
Hello, thanks for the question. Just so I understand, are you asking how to enable the group policy editor on Windows Home or did you mean something else?
Thank you so much it’s finally gone … much appreciated for your easy to follow guides. Absolute legend 🫡
My pleasure. So happy to help. Thanks for sharing that feedback. Have a great day!
Remove Top Apps, Quick Searches and Suggested of Search Box would be really awesome. :-D
So useful, thank you. So much bloat in Windows 11. I just want a simple interface.
When I open registry app it will not let me go further. Asks if I want to run app see how. Then I try the link and still does not take me to H information
Thank you so much for making that easy!
Hello thanks for this video was very helpful.
I do have a Question, on windows 10 there was the light gray box on the right bottom side (next to calendar & time) on my laptop when I clicked on it all the tabs would hide at the same time or whatever website or app I was on, sine upgrading to windows 11 it has disappeared. Is there a way to bring that back? IM SORRY I DONT KNOW THE NAME OF THAT FEATURE :
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Hello, I assume you mean that it went to show the desktop? In the latest windows 11 it’s still available but switched off and replaced with the copilot icon. To turn it back on, open settings using Windows+I. Go to personalization, taskbar, taskbar behaviours and choose ‘select the far corner of the taskbar to show desktop’. Now you should see a faint vertical line appear when you put your mouse cursor in the far right. Click it to show desktop, again to return to having the open windows show. You can use ‘Windows+D’ for the same thing. Hope that helps my friend. Have a great day!
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Hey Dan, much love from Australia. Thanks for your support. I really appreciate it,
Hello TL Tech Life, Is it possible to show this🪅for Windows 10 Home? :)
when i search my start button for "gpedit" it takes me to the internet, not my control panel
This might be of interest, I have recently started using AVG antivirus/malware. Embedded in their controls is a function to display suspect files and .exe What I have found is a plethora of Microsoft .exe apps, running in the background the report also shows the IP address. BUT unfortunately AVG does not provide in depth info on the APP/File, but Internet search shows up the info. BUT, in AVG you have the ability to block these .exe/files from accessing the IP address. So, far the blocking has not disabled Win10.
Gpedit doesn’t pull up anything not even edit group policy
Do you use pro?
This needs an update, I did this method when it came out and now it's back in again in my system, it doesn't even show in the apps, it only shows the AutoPilot icon whenever I type in the search bar...
turned off copilot in group policies and it's still on my computer if I press win+c or look at taskbar items, I did restart
Group Policy isn't available to windows11 home users. Is there a way to remove that copilot another way?
Thanks a lot for this!
You do great stuff!!! I am trying to remove the microsoft splash page when I open my laptop that requires a click, and then the next page that says sign in. I found a registry adjustment for the first computer a few months ago but had to replace the hard drive. Now I cant find it again. Any ideas???
Thank you for the positive feedback. Are you trying to ‘only’ remove the splash screen (ie a desktop style image I assume you mean), or remove the need to enter in your login details as well? And what version of Windows are you using?
@@TLTechLife hi and thanks for the quick reply!!! I would love to remove both. The sign in only requires me to press enter but both are annoying and not necessary. Windows 11.
You can get rid of the splash screen by click start and typing in msconfig and opening the 'system configuration' app. Choose the Boot tab and check the 'No GUI' option. Sorry I'm not in front of a PC atm so that's just going off memory. As for a complete solution I can investigate and get back to you.
@@TLTechLife hI! i tried your idea and it doesnt work. I know I used regedit before. I will just keep at it till someday i figure it out. thanks for trying.
got all the way to the Explorer bit Data collection Can't get past Explorer It Won't let me add a folder under the Data maybe the new key isn't helping. Any idea's woud be appriciated
I am fed up with microsoft and go pilot
for some reason i cannot disable Copilot, I opened gpedit and enabled turning it off and nothing happened its still here, any help?
If you cant find local group policy editor, you can find a video that shows you how to make a .BAT file that enables it.
An extremely well made video, too bad it is for Win 11. I got Win 10.....unwilling to upgrade because of BS such as this. The little copilot icon is in my search bars and I don't have the "show search highlights" option. I even went to the Group Policy Editor and disabled it there....to no avail.
I don't get a GP Edit when i type it in my search
Are you using windows home edition, that may be why.
I opened gpedit, went to administrative templates/windows components but I couldn't find windows copilot there. What should I do?
When i look up the group policy its not even available what should i do ? i really dont want this bloatware on my pc....
For anyone on Windows 11 Home you wont have access to the "Local Group Policy" without a bit of extra work. A quicker work around that I've found to work with no issues is by going in to the Terminal and Copy/Pasting this line of text; " reg add HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot /v TurnOffWindowsCopilot /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f ". To get to terminal right click the start icon on the task bar and select terminal. after copying and pasting make sure to restart/sign out and sign back in.
Hope this one helps!
What is Crazy is that even though Chrome is my Default Browser, lately when I click a link in an email, Edge will open with the CoPilot logo in the upper right corner - how is this even happening when Chrome is my Browser? I thought I was going to have to uninstall Edge! I will try these steps even though I am not will about editing the Registry!
for some reason my computer / windows does not have the GP Edit policy setting. I cant find it anywhere can someone please help?? thanks