• Reygle@lemmy.world
    571·
    3 months ago

    Wait until millions realize they have Windows home and don’t have group policy editor

    • yesman@lemmy.worldOP
      41·
      3 months ago

      That’s a good point:

      Disable copilot via regedit

      [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot] “TurnOffWindowsCopilot”=dword:00000001

      [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot] “TurnOffWindowsCopilot”=dword:00000001

      [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge] “HubsSidebarEnabled”=dword:00000000

      [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer] “DisableSearchBoxSuggestions”=dword:00000001

      [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer] “DisableSearchBoxSuggestions”=dword:00000001

      Reenable copilot via regedit

      [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot] “TurnOffWindowsCopilot”=-

      [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot] “TurnOffWindowsCopilot”=-

      [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge] “HubsSidebarEnabled”=-

      [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer] “DisableSearchBoxSuggestions”=-

      [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer] “DisableSearchBoxSuggestions”=-

      • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world
        423·
        3 months ago

        Gotta love Microsoft. “We need this to store either a 0 or a 1. How many bits should we take up, boss?”

        32.

        • Bezier@suppo.fi
          18·
          3 months ago

          Using more than one bit for true/false isn’t just a microsoft thing, and not really as ridiculous as it sounds. Memory isn’t addessable by bits, but by bytes. You can either:

          • Do it like the example here.
          • Use bitfields: Pack multiple values into the same address, but “waste” more memory and cpu time for keeping track and checking which bit your bool is in. This is mostly useful when the data itself has to be really small.

          Why is it 32bit / 4 bytes instead of one? I assume a byte alignment reason because of some optimization.

        • MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.todayEnglish
          92·
          3 months ago

          I bet the person who decided to store gender as a 32 bit value instead of a single bit is feeling utterly proud of his foresight right now.

    • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world
      18·
      3 months ago

      Like other options of its ilk, this surely ultimately just sets a flag in the registry someplace, which anyone can do once we figure out what the path to that flag is.

      Incidentally, although I have not had to do this in a long time, you can move a copy of the Group Policy Management snap-in (gpedit.msc) from a Windows 10 pro/enterprise/whatever machine over to a Win10 Home machine and run it, and it’ll Just Work.

      Edit:

      Found it. The value is in:

      Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot

      The value is literally just called TurnOffWindowsCopilot. That was easy, for a change.

      I confirmed that twiddling the Group Policy setting sets this to either 0 or 1.

      This is also adjacent to the “Disable Windows Consumer Features” setting, which is located right next to it in CloudContent. Another flag most sane people will want to set to 1.

  • yesman@lemmy.worldOP
    52·
    3 months ago

    By the time I typed out “how to disable” auto correct guessed “copilot” was the next word. Clever girl.

  • amotio@lemmy.world
    31·
    3 months ago

    I hate this wording choise, that “Turn off windows copilot” - Enabled, actually means that copilot is disabled. Confusing and unintuitive. It should say just “windows Copilot: Enabled/Disabled”. Why is MS like this?

    • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world
      181·
      3 months ago

      It’s a boolean operation implementing the rule in question. 0 is no action, 1 is do whatever the action is.

      In this case the action is a negative – disable the thing – so it is indeed semantically confusing to anyone who doesn’t have binary brain.

      The option for “Disable Windows Consumer Features” (i.e. stop installing Candy Crush and other bullshit in your start menu without your consent) works the same way.

    • stinerman [Ohio]@midwest.socialEnglish
      9·
      3 months ago

      This happens at my employer from time to time where the default action is for something to be off. So the option is “Turn off X” with a checked checkbox next to it.

      This is negative logic and is stupid. Turning on an option should enable something. Turning it off should disable it. If the default is that it is off, then give it a positive description “Turn on X” and then default the value to off.

      I get really angry about this if you couldn’t tell.

  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
    14·
    3 months ago

    Love how the first response to this question is to hide the icon. I’m guessing this thing is loading at boot and using some resources. If someone wants it disabled, tell them how to disable it not just sit there running all the damn time but you’ve forgotten about it because the icon isn’t there. How to I turn off my beeping smoke alarm copilot? “You have a couple of options, the first would be to place heavy earmuffs over your ears so you no longer hear the beeping.”

    • rdri@lemmy.world
      31·
      3 months ago

      I did the very same recently and found that the first advice actually stops extra edge processes from running, so I’m good with that.

  • cryptix@discuss.tchncs.de
    6·
    3 months ago

    To my surprise , I started using copilot very often.its convenient in work laptop. P.S my personal laptop doesn’t have this shit (Linux) but its really helps when you got to look something up real quick.

  • Maeve@kbin.social
    3·
    3 months ago

    You ought to see the instructions given a couple of months ago for a complete uninstall.