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I spent a good 20 minutes trying to remove copilot from my windows 10 machine last night. It embedded itself into the taskbar, the edge explorer, and I finally had to go into system components to disable it. No doubt there will be another ms update that will revert all these settings again

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On Windows 11 at least, the taskbar button toggle is in the taskbar settings, the second place you’d expect to find it (the first being the right-click menu on the button itself, though there isn’t one). I’m not aware of anything called Edge Explorer, but it looks easy enough to disable in Edge, and I’ve never seen it in Explorer.

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At some point you have to ask yourself if it would be less hassle to switch now or to try and tough it out until Windows becomes unbearable.

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Windows is already pretty unbearable.

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I spent a good 20 minutes trying to remove copilot from my windows 10 machine last night.

On Windows 11 you can just uninstall it. I did. Win10 is old and about to be unsupported.

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My pc is old unfortunately. I’d hate to upgrade it to support win11 jsut to disable all the ai crap. But I hate that my old pc keeps getting updates with copilot without me asking for copilot.

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My pc is old unfortunately. I’d hate to upgrade it to support win11 jsut to disable all the ai crap.

Alternatives to soon-to-be unsupported Windows releases exist.

But I hate that my old pc keeps getting updates with copilot without me asking for copilot.

MS replaced Cortana with Copilot, so it’s kida just an update to an existing feature.

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