Windows 10: Why are the AI features disappearing from my Copilot+ PC?

133tsp33k · Jun 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM

I've not given it too much thought over the last few months because I thought these were staged roll-outs, but I'm now really wondering why the AI features of Windows 11 keep disappearing from my Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x, a Copilot+ PC that I've yet to see any meaningful Copilot+ functionality with.I remember maybe a month or two ago the fans were going wild after an update and I noticed GPU activity was maxed out - this was due to the semantic search indexing, and that feature was available for a while. But I've noticed now that my search bar is no longer purple in the start menu or the Settings a

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LChalifoux · Jun 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM

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

I want to fully disable (or preferably remove) Copilot and all other AI functionality in Windows 11 Home Edition. This question may belong under another topic; I just guessed at Settings.

See the bottom of this post for system information. Below are specific questions related to the details of disabling Copilot and AI functionality. I have not been able to find any of this information on any Microsoft resources; perhaps I missed something?.

Disabling Copilot in Windows 11 Home Edition: Please note that I am running Windows 11 Home edition - not Pro, Enterprise, etc., where I could solve the problem with group policies or other administrative options. The Windows Update setting "Get the latest updates" is turned on, so I am running Copilot Preview.

Copilot Taskbar Button: I have hidden Copilot on the taskbar, but that is obviously not the same as disabling Copilot or other AI functionality.

Disabling Copilot via Registry: There are instructions on various websites for disabling Copilot by editing the registry; I would appreciate details about how to do that, as long as the necessary edits are reasonably safe and reliable.

Disabling all AI functionality: How centralized is AI functionality in Windows 11? Does disabling Copilot disable AI functionality across all Windows 11 built-in features, as well as Microsoft desktop apps? Or has AI metastasized across the entire Windows ecosystem, requiring a constant game of whack-a-mole to disable everywhere?

Thanks in advance for any help.

- Laura

Windows System Information:

Edition Windows 11 Home

Version 22H2

OS build OS Build 22621.2361 Preview (KB5030310)

Vigneshwaran V · Jun 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM

How to disable copilot in Windows 11 23H2?

There is a solution to keep Copilot out of your eyesight, it does not permanently remove or uninstall Copilot from your Windows 11 environment. Microsoft is persistent and Copilot is inevitable, not to mention the latest computers are equipped with a dedicated Copilot Key in the keyboard. Hence, it is up to us to get used to this feature, and also the field of AI is exponentially increasing, so it is better to get used to it. However, the simple solution is to disable copilot via Taskbar as you mentioned that Policy Editor didn't help. The following are the steps.

Go to Windows Settings.

Click on Personalization.

Under Taskbar, you can find Copilot (preview)

Toggle the switch to Off.

In this way, Copilot can be kept out of sight.

I hope the same works for you.

Brink · Jun 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM

Continued AI Innovation in Copilot

Today, in addition to celebrating the first year of Microsoft Copilot, we announced several new Copilot features that are beginning to roll out. We’re excited to give you a more detailed glimpse into some of these features. GPT-4 Turbo – Soon, Copilot will be able to generate responses using OpenAI's latest model, GPT-4 Turbo, enabling you to tackle more complex and longer tasks such as writing code and more. This model is currently in testing with select users and will be widely integrated into Copilot in the coming weeks. New DALL-E 3 Model – You can now use Copilot to create images that are even higher quality and more accurate to the prompt with an updated DALL-E 3 model. These capabilities are available to you now by visiting bing.com/create or by prompting Copilot to create an image. See the below comparison, although to truly appreciate the level of detail of the new model click on the prompt here: photorealistic stegosaurus having its bony plates attended to by a nail salon

Multi-Modal with Search Grounding – We are combining the power of GPT-4 with vision with Bing image search and web search data to deliver better image understanding for your queries. This new capability will be available soon. Here you can see how we’ve updated Prometheus for multi-modal:

The results are pretty impressive as you can see in the example below. A traditional multi-modal system would be able to describe what's in the image in a generic way, but with search grounding we are able to identify the exact shuttle and the day it was launched.

Code Interpreter - We are developing a new capability that will enable you to perform complex tasks such as more accurate calculation, coding, data analysis, visualization, math and more. We are gathering feedback on these capabilities from a select set of users and plan to make it widely available soon. Copilot will write the code to answer your complex, natural-language requests, run that code in a sandboxed environment and use the results to give you higher quality responses. You can also upload and download files to and from Copilot, so you can work with your own data and code as well as Bing search results. Copilot's powerful Python environment runs in a secure sandboxed environment built on top of Azure Container Apps. It provides fast, user isolated environments preloaded with many popular tools and libraries for data science, such as pandas, numpy, matplotlib, sklearn, flask, and more to solve complex problems. You can combine the data Copilot has access to from Bing search and the web with data uploaded in files to get deep, relevant insights as well as beautiful and interactive outputs.

Video understanding and Q&A – Copilot in Edge. You can now summarize or ask questions about a video that you are watching in Edge. For example if you are watching the YouTube video of Satya’s latest Ignite keynote, you can ask Copilot to summarize it for you as you can see in the screenshot below.

We look forward to your feedback!
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Source:

Continued AI Innovation in Copilot | Search Quality Insights

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/202...w-innovations/

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