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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 53567

In early 2026, Microsoft confirmed that Copilot cannot be fully removed from Windows 11, as its hooks are tightly embedded into core system components like COM, WinRT APIs, explorer.exe, and WebView2. Disabling the feature merely hides its interface while background processes and context-awareness logic remain active,

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Csimbi · Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2026 7:04 pm Post subject:

So, what's the news here?
It's been a known fact for a while now.
Quite a few here jumped on that vagon.
I am happy with Win10 for a few more years and then it's Linux for me - I am not putting up with the MS corporate bullshit anymore.

Question: how long it would take for an AI to clean up copilot from the Windows 11 source code? lol
It has not been there before, so it can be removed 100%.
You should see that Microsoft is making excuses not to.
It's a convenient platform to gather user data.
You see, people have been rejecting Microsoft privacy agreements whereever they were asked. So, Microsoft changed the music with Copilot: it's AI, your data is our data, we are washing our hands clean.
In the meantime, users have no clue who's mining their data and for what. Who is using backdoors to their systems to do what.
Windows 11 users can tap themselves on the back. Congrats for signing your lives away! lol