I really wish Microsoft would ASK US if we want these new updates instead of shoving them up our asses with a tetnis infected steel pipe. Seriously most of these 'additions' are useless bloatware, just give me the option to add the security/other updates and not install the useless stuff I'll never use.
You are an absolute saint and the first person I was able to find to explain how to disable it for those of us who can’t access group edit without trying to find a confusing work around to make group edit accessible. Thank you so much!
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.
incredible video, i went through 4 other videos and wasted my time trying nonsense, your video was easy to follow. thumbs up and subscribed. Thank you bud
Thank You For Making This Video, I Wish There is Simplier Ways To Disable And Or Remove Any Feature You Want On Windows, BUT At Your Own Risk At Least There is An Way To Disable Copilot With An Couple Of Steps.
Perfect directions! You were the only one I found that walked me through how to do this where I could understand it! And, for this 66 year old woman, it was a great help! Thank you!!
Excellent stuff. I had a big update on windows 10 today and immediately noticed a new icon pop up on my taskbar. Thanks, but (very much) no thanks, Microsoft!
@@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
I had an update today that had my old windows 10 laptop freezing nonstop! And of course, there's a new icon for Copilot! I watched all the other videos on how to get rid of it with no luck. BUT YOURS WORKED!! Thank you so much!!.
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
As a number of people have discovered, this seemingly simple step does not work for some versions of Windows 10. I have build 10.0.19045 ... the Taskbar options do not appear as shown in several vids like this. There is NO option to toggle off the Microsoft Forceware. Can you please update this?
I've never done anything in the registry editor before but you explained it clearly and it worked like a charm. I feel like some kind of super cool hacker!
I need to point out that I did what you said in Windows 10, and now there is a separate taskbar showing on the right side of my screen which wasn’t there before, which shows the copilot icon and when I hover over it, copilot is still running on my machine… I’m angry because I was handling sensitive information yesterday before learning about the security issues with copilot.
Very good vid. Even non-regs savvy folks can do this now by just following your vid. We do not like being treated like idiots and we don't want to be spied upon. Full STOP.!!
some one typed To save everyone time with regards to disabling Windows Copilot as of Win11 Home Build 22631.3447: The "system-wide" registry entry stated @ 3:14 does not work. This does work: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot w/ REG_DWORD TurnOffWindowsCopilot w/ Value 1 This does not work: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot w/ REG_DWORD TurnOffWindowsCopilot w/ Value 1
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
It didn't work. But I do have a question about the regedit option. Do you do BOTH....do you change the registry for HKEY CURRENT USER and HKEY LOCAL MACHINE like the instructions say? OR, to you decide which one to change in the registry?
Hi there, thank you for the information. I did as you said in Regedit (windows 10 home edit. ) but it did not work. Do you have an idea of what I am doing wrong. I was very careful and double checked it with no luck. Looking forward to hearing from you, Blessings
@@fletcherchristian2254 Hi, nope ... I still have the problem which is most madding. Why put something on a personal computer without permission? Really dumb. If you get it resolved please drop me a post? Blessings
@@clintonrothwell5709 I think I have resolved it via using shell regedit. I'll give you the yt link. The shell edit part is at the latter part of video. He goes very fast so I had to keep going back...but if you go to ''more'' in the description of video there is a direct link to the screen shots. Just go slow and methodically/like I said I had to rewind the video about 7-8 times. It seems to have done the trick as copilot is actually gone and everything is loading faster. The video is just really badly made and he just goes way too fast but it is working for me. Hope this helps..here is the link How-to Disable and TurnOff Windows Copilot in Windows 10 ruclips.net/video/phKVOHcmcm8/видео.html
@@clintonrothwell5709 Second reply by me...please see first reply. RE: video and link: He does the same thing that this channel did but the shell reg edit part(different than this channel) is towards the end. RE: link to screen shot --I'll'' put link below this. On the page you want to go about half way down to the :HEADING What If Windows 10 Still Does Not Turnoff Copilot? This is the shell regedit part that worked for me. These instructions aren't very good either but it's good to cut and paste the text so you don't have to type them in manually like i did. So watch the video part first a few times (again the yt video shell reg is the latter part of the video) and then reference the web link for the text...But it is working. I would watch the video a few times then reference the text....It was maddening how fast he went but it is working for me. Tell me how it works out for you www.rankya.com/how-to/disable-and-turnoff-microsoft-copilot-windows-10/
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.
@@TheHowToGuy123 I did the regedit but copilot is still there? I did user and system wide and when I restarted I hit the icon and it went straight to copilot.
Thank you very much for the video. It worked, so for now, one less thing to worry about. I wanted gone mostly for a matter of privacy for things I heard about Copilot taking constant screenshots of the computer every few seconds to "learn and improve". Do you know if this should eliminate that function? Or maybe that was never a thing?
I followed your instructions and copilot disappeared. However, it does come back. When it does, I have to restart the computer and it will disappear again for a while. May this is for one reason or another the option to "enable" never appeared on my computer. I have retraced the steps several times. They all remain in the registry but the "enable" option never appears.
Yo, hope you're doing well. I followed the instructions for the regedit version, but copilot was still there after I restarted my PC. I'm on Windows 10 with a 64 bit operating system.
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!
LOOKS LIKE THEY PATCHED THIS OR SOMETHING. DID EXACTLY WHAT WAS DESCRIBED AND MADE 100% SURE OF IT. ITS STILL ON MY TASKBAR, CAN OPEN IT UP AND EVERYTHING!! THIS THING IS PISSING ME OFF BAD. EDIT: I went back and and made sure everything was typed correctly, but deleted everything and re-done it. Once restarted, it was gone. I see others have said if goes away for awhile and comes back. I'll edit here if thats the case. THANK YOU though.. Sorry for yelling lol.
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.
Why the hell are you telling people this There is absolutely NO reason for it. And you should not be telling people to play in the Registry Crazy telling people to remove good, useful, helpful stuff❗❗👎👎
I really wish Microsoft would ASK US if we want these new updates instead of shoving them up our asses with a tetnis infected steel pipe. Seriously most of these 'additions' are useless bloatware, just give me the option to add the security/other updates and not install the useless stuff I'll never use.
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.
You are an absolute saint and the first person I was able to find to explain how to disable it for those of us who can’t access group edit without trying to find a confusing work around to make group edit accessible. Thank you so much!
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
Thanks Kyle, i love how you actually know what you're doing. It's easy to see. Keep being awesome dude!
Worked like a champ. Thank you!
incredible video, i went through 4 other videos and wasted my time trying nonsense, your video was easy to follow. thumbs up and subscribed. Thank you bud
Thank You For Making This Video, I Wish There is Simplier Ways To Disable And Or Remove Any Feature You Want On Windows, BUT At Your Own Risk At Least There is An Way To Disable Copilot With An Couple Of Steps.
Perfect directions! You were the only one I found that walked me through how to do this where I could understand it! And, for this 66 year old woman, it was a great help!
Thank you!!
Excellent stuff. I had a big update on windows 10 today and immediately noticed a new icon pop up on my taskbar. Thanks, but (very much) no thanks, Microsoft!
There's no Copilot setting in the taskbar settings on Windows 10.
@@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.
Excellent, and works as described!
I had an update today that had my old windows 10 laptop freezing nonstop! And of course, there's a new icon for Copilot! I watched all the other videos on how to get rid of it with no luck. BUT YOURS WORKED!! Thank you so much!!.
Excellent, worked like a champ on my Windows 10 Home. I have no idea how Copilot was installed. It was not me.
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
As a number of people have discovered, this seemingly simple step does not work for some versions of Windows 10. I have build 10.0.19045 ... the Taskbar options do not appear as shown in several vids like this. There is NO option to toggle off the Microsoft Forceware. Can you please update this?
Perfect tutorial. Thank you.
Thanks for trying, but the "Personalization > Taskbar" screen you show in the video does not exist in Windows 10.
Finally! I went through a dozen tutorials that none worked
this worked beautifully. Thank you kindly!
This video was a so helpful thank you!
It work, Thank You Very much 🤟 appreciate it
Thank you so much for this. For the average person i would have had no clue how to do this. Thanks again. Subscribed. 👍✌
worked great for win11 home edition where i couldnt find group policy editor! Thanks
I've never done anything in the registry editor before but you explained it clearly and it worked like a charm. I feel like some kind of super cool hacker!
fantastic mi duck, thank you
Thankyou so much! Brilliant!
I need to point out that I did what you said in Windows 10, and now there is a separate taskbar showing on the right side of my screen which wasn’t there before, which shows the copilot icon and when I hover over it, copilot is still running on my machine… I’m angry because I was handling sensitive information yesterday before learning about the security issues with copilot.
Very good vid. Even non-regs savvy folks can do this now by just following your vid.
We do not like being treated like idiots and we don't want to be spied upon. Full STOP.!!
some one typed
To save everyone time with regards to disabling Windows Copilot as of Win11 Home Build 22631.3447:
The "system-wide" registry entry stated @ 3:14 does not work.
This does work: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot w/ REG_DWORD TurnOffWindowsCopilot w/ Value 1
This does not work: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot w/ REG_DWORD TurnOffWindowsCopilot w/ Value 1
Thanks dude it worked
Quick question. Does this stop Windows from taking a screenshot of my computer every few seconds?
Thanks!! Easier than i thought after watching this!! Sick of windows bloatware!
Liked and subscribed, even though I now need to reboot.
thank you. it worked for me
Thanks you absolute legend 🙌.
Windows 10 just got copilot. Unfortunately the regedit doesn’t work anymore.
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 assume the setting is in the computer gpedit area too? I’d like to disable this for all users on all machines. We have hotdesks.
There isn't a toggle for copilot in Windows 10 Taskbar settings.
Apparently Co-Pilot uses / needs "Edge" in order to work. Can I not just uninstall Edge rather than mess about with the registry.
Thank you! 🙏🏼
is there a difference in the process if its co pilot preview? i followed all the steps but its still there
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
It didn't work. But I do have a question about the regedit option. Do you do BOTH....do you change the registry for HKEY CURRENT USER and HKEY LOCAL MACHINE like the instructions say? OR, to you decide which one to change in the registry?
*Thank You just disabled my Windows 11 Home*
I treid everything! Nothing worked I did what you said and its still here like a virus!?
so i followed your regedit instruction for user
im the only one who uses this computer should i even bother with the system wide one?
Nope, you can just turn off copilot for just yourself if you want. Just added it to the video as an fyi.
God's work o7
Hi there, thank you for the information. I did as you said in Regedit (windows 10 home edit. ) but it did not work. Do you have an idea of what I am doing wrong. I was very careful and double checked it with no luck.
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Blessings
I have same problem...did you resolve this or find solution?
@@fletcherchristian2254 Hi, nope ... I still have the problem which is most madding. Why put something on a personal computer without permission? Really dumb. If you get it resolved please drop me a post? Blessings
@@clintonrothwell5709 I think I have resolved it via using shell regedit. I'll give you the yt link. The shell edit part is at the latter part of video. He goes very fast so I had to keep going back...but if you go to ''more'' in the description of video there is a direct link to the screen shots. Just go slow and methodically/like I said I had to rewind the video about 7-8 times. It seems to have done the trick as copilot is actually gone and everything is loading faster. The video is just really badly made and he just goes way too fast but it is working for me. Hope this helps..here is the link How-to Disable and TurnOff Windows Copilot in Windows 10 ruclips.net/video/phKVOHcmcm8/видео.html
@@clintonrothwell5709 Second reply by me...please see first reply. RE: video and link: He does the same thing that this channel did but the shell reg edit part(different than this channel) is towards the end. RE: link to screen shot --I'll'' put link below this. On the page you want to go about half way down to the :HEADING What If Windows 10 Still Does Not Turnoff Copilot?
This is the shell regedit part that worked for me. These instructions aren't very good either but it's good to cut and paste the text so you don't have to type them in manually like i did. So watch the video part first a few times (again the yt video shell reg is the latter part of the video) and then reference the web link for the text...But it is working.
I would watch the video a few times then reference the text....It was maddening how fast he went but it is working for me. Tell me how it works out for you
www.rankya.com/how-to/disable-and-turnoff-microsoft-copilot-windows-10/
@@fletcherchristian2254 Thank you so much I will give this a try and let you know how I made out. I appreciate your help,
Blessings
Thank you.
Question: how do you remove it entirely from the system to free space?
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.
@@TheHowToGuy123 I did the regedit but copilot is still there? I did user and system wide and when I restarted I hit the icon and it went straight to copilot.
Thank you very much for the video. It worked, so for now, one less thing to worry about. I wanted gone mostly for a matter of privacy for things I heard about Copilot taking constant screenshots of the computer every few seconds to "learn and improve". Do you know if this should eliminate that function? Or maybe that was never a thing?
After following each step, Windows Copilot is still on my computer :(
It's still there
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
Thank you very much :)
LOL I asked Copilot "How do I disable Copilot?" It refused to answer, told me to ask it anything else.
Pointless, MS keeps reinstalling, resetting with ALL updates! With every update it comes back! MS getting VERY aggressive!
Thank you worked for me saw someone made a thing where a white hat could take the data and wanted it off
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 followed your instructions and copilot disappeared. However, it does come back. When it does, I have to restart the computer and it will disappear again for a while. May this is for one reason or another the option to "enable" never appeared on my computer. I have retraced the steps several times. They all remain in the registry but the "enable" option never appears.
Regedit method does not work currently
how to remove copilot in right side windows 11??? this is annoying
Is there a workaround to even deactivate that ugly Icon at the search bar?
Man they really didn't want us to turn that shit off huh.
Thank you
THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!
Doesn't work on Windows 10.
I can't access any of these methods on Windows 10.
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.
didn't work for my 10 home
This method no longer works. I just went the Regedit way and its still there.
Yo, hope you're doing well. I followed the instructions for the regedit version, but copilot was still there after I restarted my PC. I'm on Windows 10 with a 64 bit operating system.
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 came back tho all buttons off. Returned after an update install
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!
Uninstalled windows 365 & windows Explorer
Now you can just uninstall it like a regular app
U r awesome
Thankyou for tips, i got problem from windows copilot because windows 11 shit Update,
bug sound
bug windows copilot
i fix from reggedit in 2:09
Right click copilot, select Uninstall. 2 seconds. Done.
I wish it was that simple 😔
LOOKS LIKE THEY PATCHED THIS OR SOMETHING. DID EXACTLY WHAT WAS DESCRIBED AND MADE 100% SURE OF IT. ITS STILL ON MY TASKBAR, CAN OPEN IT UP AND EVERYTHING!! THIS THING IS PISSING ME OFF BAD. EDIT:
I went back and and made sure everything was typed correctly, but deleted everything and re-done it. Once restarted, it was gone. I see others have said if goes away for awhile and comes back. I'll edit here if thats the case. THANK YOU though.. Sorry for yelling lol.
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.
no need copilit
Why the hell are you telling people this There is absolutely NO reason for it. And you should not be telling people to play in the Registry Crazy telling people to remove good, useful, helpful stuff❗❗👎👎
Do you work for Microsoft or something? Its like Electric vehicles, pushing for bullshit nobody wants or asked for.
Worked perfectly. Thank you very much! 😁
Worked like a charm. Thanks so much!