How do I disable Copilot and all Other AI functionality in Windows 11 PRO

The latest update to Edge apparently still shows Microsoft AI is poised and ready for action.

As for windows Copilot, and other installed non-essentials, there is a way possible way to "actually" remove Copilot permanently from W10 and W11, as I have done this to remove Edge, and a few other items from older builds of W11. I haven't gotten around to trying this with the latest build, but there is a few tools out there that allow for de bloating windows ISO files, so by the time you install Windows, if you don't want Edge, it wont be there, and any other pesky non-essentials that you don't want.

It takes some time (and patience) to do, but with my older installs, it has been worth it.

Go to 11 forums, and search "remove preinstalled apps from base image", or some other variations of this, and try some of the suggested apps that others have mentioned.

Best wishes, and I hope this helps.

"...All the while you have accounts with Facebook, X, Google, Yahoo, etc."

<removed - COC violation>

I also employ a hardware-based edge firewall, a perimeter network, and internal DNS poisoning to prevent Google, Microsoft, and 99% of ad-tracking agencies from transacting data on/across my network.

In cases where I *do* have to interact with social media, or such agencies as described, I use a brand-new, clean-install, VM (which is erased when I'm done), onion-routing, and single-use, throw-away email addresses for registration when/where needed.

"I'm 52 yrs old and have been online for close to 30 years."

*yawn* -- Age 54 here; started into telecommunications in the mid-80's on acoustic-coupled 300bps modems... STILL doesn't mean I'm interested in having Microsoft, Google, or anyone else monitoring, cataloging, indexing, and selling information about every single byte of data on my network to whomever will pony up some $$.

"Pretty certain one more company having my email address isn't going to effect my life in any way, shape, or form."

If literally anyone on the internet has that email address, then they all already have it.

What we're talking about here is their desire for more detailed and granular information about ALL OF YOUR ACTIVITY!

• How often are you on the computer?
• What do you do with it when you're on?
• What does it do when you're NOT on it?
• What things does your mouse hover over the longest?
• Which sites do you visit?
• What do you DO on those sites?
• What aliases/names do you go-by/use?
• What do you stream/download?
• What do you buy?
• What do you look at, but don't buy?
• How much data do you use?
• What data/files do you have on your computer?
• Which file(s) do you access most often?
• Do you access particular files at routine times, for routine periods?
  • If so, what are they?
• Do you bank online?
  • With who?
  • How often?
  • Who are your creditors?
  • How much do you owe?

The list is endless -- there's literally no bottom to the well of information that they crave to harvest about you, and that's why they go to such efforts to produce these 'tools' and first try to get you to install/use them voluntarily, before ultimately resorting to just imposing them on everyone when it's discovered that nobody wants to have someone examining their every in/action under an electron-microscope and selling everything they find to anyone who'll buy it...

You sound like an AI.

Because he has nothing better to do.