Published: October 19, 2025
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AI is now built in. “Every Windows 11 PC is now an AI PC – with Copilot at the center of it all.”

@Windows Nope. Uninstalling it. Get-AppxPackage -allusers *copilot* | Remove-AppxPackage -allusers Get-AppxPackage -allusers *startexperience* | Remove-AppxPackage -allusers Get-AppxPackage -allusers *webexperience* | Remove-AppxPackage -allusers

@MichaelSwengel @Windows Except you pretty much have to add it as a scheduled task since MS keeps pushing the shit back out...

@GxnTotingTexan @Windows I've not had it happen yet. But no doubt they'll try that at some point.

@MichaelSwengel @Windows Would this work on a win 10 pc too?

@Kneyki @Windows I would assume the first command would, but I've not tried it and can't vouch for it. Your mileage may vary. The other two I think would be Windows 11 specific. But, again, I've not tried it.

@MichaelSwengel @Windows And it bricks the OS since everything is built around it

@Mrcoldhands12 @Windows Nope. Sure doesn't. I run this (and actually the expanded list below) on every new Windows install I setup. No issues so far. Obviously use at your own risk. All this does is search for and remove copilot, the startexperience package and the webexperience package.

@MichaelSwengel @Windows Until they remove those commands simply because they own the OS.

@NotSantos7 @Windows Sure. They could. Or they could change. But these are basic commands that just search for a package by name and then remove that package. I don't see them ever removing that functionality. It's super helpful for IT admins and configurators.

@MichaelSwengel @Windows What risks are there of doing this

@Starvoid17 @Windows The only risks I can think of would be if you really like copilot or widgets or web content / widgets in the Start menu, then you wouldn't want to uninstall those packages. I can't think of any way this would actually break anything other than that though. But as always with

@MichaelSwengel @Windows Where do I enter this command?

@PelleMalx @Windows In an admin Terminal window or Powershell. (Also, at your own risk. Just FYI.)

@MichaelSwengel @Windows Won't be long before having done these will brick your PC

@nevrrong @Windows I don't see that happening, tbh. Microsoft may block these commands one way or another in a future build, but these are pretty standard commands to look for a package by name and then uninstall that package.

@MichaelSwengel @Windows You rule for this 👏👏👏

@MichaelSwengel @Windows And then continue to uninstall Win11

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@MichaelSwengel @Windows Just switch to linux..

@juancruzrami @Windows Ha. Just happy to help. This is what I run on every new install of Windows. (Note, this will remove Teams, Outlook and preinstalled Office, so remove those lines if you want to keep them.) Get-AppxPackage -allusers *bing* | Remove-AppxPackage -allusers Get-AppxPackage -allusers

@MichaelSwengel @Windows This will probably eventually not work as co pilot is becoming more and more integrated into the OS. I personally could never fully remove it and just switched to Linux. Couldn't be happier

@jccvk @Windows Anything's possible. But I'm hoping not. Which distro did you switch to? I've been happy with Mint so far.

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