perhaps you are like me. you removed the windows copilot preview trash from your start bar. you think that's enough. then one day you accidentally hit Win+C and this giant sidebar nonsense slides out to show you the glory of ai.
maybe like me you've had enough of this bullshit.
so you open up a text editor and put the following into it. you save it as, i don't know, fuck-off-copilot.reg. you double click it and accept the prompts. you log out and back in. Win+C no longer brings that garbage up. you check task manager; nothing shows up for copilot.
you know the victory is temporary. but you also know that someday you'll be able to do your work in linux and can rid yourself of this horror. but for now, you get some peace.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[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
made with @nex3's syntax highlighter