Learn how to turn off and remove AI features in Windows 11. Disable Copilot, AI in Notepad, Edge, Explorer, Office, etc.

It seems like a fair assessment to state that the many ‘AI’ features that Microsoft added to Windows 11 are at least somewhat controversial. Unsurprisingly, this has led many to wonder about disabling ...

So I'm looking to ease my main family desktop off of W11 over to Fedora KDE. There are a few things in Windows I need to make sure transition over, like the Plex server for one (files are on a ...

It's no secret that Microsoft's drive to turn Windows 11 into an "agentic" AI-focused OS has been controversial, but being de facto market leader does not mean users won't push back, and a handy ...

There are lots of things that have gone viral, for all sorts of different reasons. The latest viral craze struck after a developer released a tool to strip Windows of its AI capabilities, and X is ...

There is perhaps nothing that has plagued the electronics consumer quite as much as bloatware. It’s omnipresent in most modern operating systems and products, whether it’s extra stuff on Android ...

I have a keyboard called Yiddish/Hebrew which generally works fine but when I use it in OneNote in Windows 11 it doesn’t work well on punctuation. When typing a coma, full stop or question mark after ...

Pre-installed software, often called bloatware, can clutter your Windows 11 experience from the moment you first turn on a new PC. These unwanted applications consume valuable disk space, use up ...

With the latest 25H2 update, all the usual cleaning mentioned in the article will still have multiple "Workload Session Host" processes using up to 2GB of memory. These are being used for AI tasks in ...

Cortana was Microsoft’s voice assistant designed to compete with Siri and Alexa, but it has now been officially discontinued. Despite this, it still appears on many Windows 11 systems, consuming ...

Microsoft OneDrive is a cloud storage service built into Windows 11 that automatically syncs your files with the cloud. While useful for some, it often runs in the background, consumes bandwidth, and ...

Last week, Microsoft announced a wave of updates that make every Windows 11 PC an AI PC — with Copilot as the center of the experience. With that, Windows users could expect three main changes: ...