I uninstalled that bitch within three minutes of its icon showing up in my taskbar.

Take note also of Windows Recall. Apparently, this is a Win11 key logger which takes screenshots of your PC every three seconds.

So is Copilot and Recall two separate programs? I just noticed I have copilot on my laptop

Yes, I just bought a surface pro 7+ to replace my aged surface pro 4, both of which use windows 10 pro.
The surface pro’s have been flawless for me in this config.
I didn’t like the bullshit associated with the newest surface tablets and windows 11 and copilot. (AI)
Thanks for the link, Mike.
I am gonna dump that as well.

Thanks Para for the heads up. I just noticed this is on my PC and never really gave it much thought. I just removed it. So are both key loggers or just Recall? I have Windows 10 and don't see the recall.

Even if benign, it's redundant. Uninstalled.

Pilot must be pushed when Windows applies an update. It was installed on my machine, but not configured. Uninstalled that shit. My machine is probably 7 years old and I guarantee it was not on there when I bought it.

I was very surprised it was installed as an app because I certainly didn't install it. I'm betting it came from Windows update.

uninstalled Copilot but did not see Windows Recall

thanks for the heads up on this - will keep an eye open for Recall

I know only as much about Recall as is mentioned in the video I posted (great channel, by the way). Apparently, Recall is only on Win11.

Copilot is an "AI assistant" but not a key logger.

As Braxman mentioned in the video, he will use Linux for his computer, and phones other than Apple.

I saw copilot the other day and didn't think anything of it. Thanks for the heads up, now it's gone.

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Originally posted by 1967Goat:
I'm betting it came from Windows update.

It showed up on my Win 10 pc in March. https://sigforum.com/eve/forum...710073705#2710073705


Uninstalling seemed like an incomplete solution, future updates would just reactivate it. I posted this at that time, Win 10/11 --

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I'm pretty much going to Ubuntu when Windows 10 expires.

I guess there will be certain things I won't be able to do in Ubuntu, but so be it.

This sounds like an absolute nightmare for anyone trying to keep anything private - from the military, through hospitals and law firms, down to a self-employed guy that doesn't want his bid calculation process available to all and sundry.

I think I got shafted by the Microshaft Corp earlier today. Thank you bill gates.

I was online earlier this morning. Everything fine. Closed it down, went out for the rest of the day, got home a few hours ago and tried to go online.

It's messed up. I'm not super computer savvy like some of you folks.

When I click on the task bar for the default browser, now it says "Edge" and the dang thing won't work properly. On the far left side of the screen there is about 1/2 of an inch of something, and no matter what I do I can't get it to come to the center of the screen so I can see what it is and do what I want, nor can I figure out what it is. If I right click it says "Edge". It won't work properly. I can't even see what that is. It's pretty much hidden.


Good thing I had downloaded Firefox (am on firefox now) and I can click on it's icon and get here to SigForum or anywhere else I want to go.

I did look and I see this CoPilot thing is installed now. I didn't do it. I managed to get to where I could click on "update history" and see where it updated this morning without my knowledge or permission. It also says "update failed".

I think I'd better stay on Firefox or another browser, but I'd like to get it back to the way that it was so that I could see about getting my saved favorites moved (or at least be reminded of them so I could do them manually on Firefox.

Any advice? This laptop is working fine, but it's 5 years old and I've been thinking about replacing when the Black Friday deals come.

Is there someway to put it back to just before Microshaft updated their crap today?

Thanks
Gene

I gave up my PC when they forced an upgrade due to Windows X (I believe, it's been awhile). Love my Mac, but it took some getting used to. That said, I remember the stupid paper clip assistant...which I guess has morphed into the co-pilot......I'm too lazy to look it up.

If you don't use an admin account on your local computer and go into the Group Policy Editor to disable CoPilot, they will just undo changes you make with Windows Updates.

Guess what? The have some kind of AI app in MS Office, ai.exe. It's another nuisance. Keep your Task Manager pinned to the taskbar so you can quickly check.

AI is more embedded and integrated into Windows 11 than 10, I hear.