Remove AI Features from Windows 11 🔥 Disable Copilot & AI Completely

Check Which AI Features Your PC Actually Has

Start by grading what is on your machine, because Windows 11 AI comes in layers and not every PC has every layer. Open Settings > Apps > Installed apps and look for Microsoft Copilot — if it is listed, it is an ordinary app and it can be uninstalled. Right-click the taskbar and open Taskbar settings to see the separate Copilot button toggle. Recall, Click to Do and AI search exist only on Copilot+ PCs — machines with a neural processing unit (NPU) built for on-device AI — so most PCs do not have them at all. Knowing which layer you are dealing with saves you from registry tricks aimed at features your PC never had.

Uninstall the Copilot App

This is the one piece of Windows AI that truly leaves the machine. In Settings > Apps > Installed apps, find Microsoft Copilot, click the three dots at the right of its row and choose Uninstall. The shorter route does the same thing: open Start, go to All apps, right-click Copilot and choose Uninstall. Restart the PC once afterwards so Start menu shortcuts and pinned entries clear out. Uninstalling Copilot does not break Windows, your files, the Microsoft Store or your other apps — and if you ever change your mind, Copilot is a free app in the Microsoft Store, so the decision is reversible in about two minutes.

Hide the Taskbar Button and Turn Off Edge Copilot

Uninstalling the app does not remove every doorway to it. Right-click an empty part of the taskbar, open Taskbar settings and switch Copilot off — this is a visibility switch, honestly graded as disable-able rather than removed. Microsoft Edge keeps its own separate copy of the integration: open Edge Settings, find the Copilot and sidebar section, and turn off Show Copilot button on the toolbar and any sidebar auto-show options there. Windows settings do not reach inside Edge, so this step has to be done in the browser itself. If your keyboard has a dedicated Copilot key, it simply asks Windows to open the Copilot app — once the app is uninstalled, the key has nothing to open and becomes harmless.

Block Copilot with Group Policy

On Windows 11 Pro, Enterprise and Education there is a supported switch that settings alone do not give you. Press Windows + R, type this and press Enter:

gpedit.msc

Go to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Copilot, open Turn off Windows Copilot, set it to Enabled and apply. Then apply the policy right away:

gpupdate /force

Windows 11 Home has no Group Policy editor; the same policy exists as a registry value — create a DWORD value named TurnOffWindowsCopilot and set it to 1 under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot, then restart.

Turn Off Recall and the Copilot Plus Extras

If your PC is a Copilot+ model, check the one feature people worry about most. Open Settings > Privacy & security > Recall & snapshots. Microsoft ships Recall off until you opt in — snapshot saving starts only after you agree to it — and the same page lets you pause snapshot saving, filter apps and websites, and delete snapshots at any time. Click to Do has its own page under Privacy & security on these PCs and switches off there. If the Recall & snapshots page does not exist on your PC, your PC does not have Recall at all — one less thing to remove.

Re-Check After Feature Updates

Here is the honest finish that no video title can promise away: Windows feature updates can reinstall provisioned apps, and the Copilot app has returned on some PCs after a clean uninstall. Settings toggles and per-app uninstalls are the weakest layer against an update; policy is the strongest. So finish with a habit, not a hope — after every big feature update, spend five minutes re-checking three places: Installed apps for the Copilot app, the taskbar Copilot toggle, and the Recall & snapshots page on Copilot+ PCs. If the app reappeared and you still do not want it, uninstall it again. What you can honestly achieve is an AI layer that is off, hidden and blocked — which in daily use feels exactly like removed.