How to completely remove Copilot from Edge?

I think that most of you are misinterpreting A. User's problem. The problem is turning off Copilot in BING SEARCH, not Microsoft Edge. Turning off Copilot in Edge is easily done. Turning off Copilot in Bing Search is so far impossible. You will need to change the default search engine in Edge.

Yes, it's really a pain when your "Copilot" turns out to be a Hijacker instead!! Copilot totally ruined the Edge browser. I am switching back to Google as my default search engine and start page and not using Bing anymore. That's a shame! I enjoyed the Bing search engine up until Copilot was introduced.

I completely uninstalled Copilot in Windows 11 Pro using Revo Uninstaller Pro and no signs of Copilot appear anywhere on my machine & Windows settings or Edge browser.... right up until I open Bing search and then Copilot acts like a hijacker. Enough is enough!!

Microsoft doesn't care!

To change your default search engine in Microsoft Edge:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/change-your-default-search-engine-in-microsoft-edge-cccaf51c-a4df-a43e-8036-d4d2c527a791#Overview

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This policy setting allows you to turn off Windows Copilot.

    If you enable this policy setting, users will not be able to use Copilot. The Copilot icon will not appear on the taskbar either. 

    If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users will be able to use Copilot when it's available to them.

Thanks a lot, Sean. I didn't think of using the policy editor. I'm still on Windows 10, but I'm guessing it would be the same procedure.

I ended up uninstalling Edge altogether. I guess what really upsets me is that Windows chose to install, automatically restart and let run in the taskbar with no input from me. I have automatic updates disabled because I built the PC myself to have more control over this kind of stuff.

Now that Edge and Copilot are both gone I'm hoping the issue will be resolved.

Thanks again!