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Brace yourself, a report suggests that Copilot is coming to Windows 10 (ghacks.net)

submitted 1 year ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] PancakeLegend@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If it follows the same pattern for all MS features, there will be a check box to turn it off, but it will be on by default. So if you don't like it, turn it off and save your outrage, like me, for the absence of a vertical taskbar in Windows 11.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

turn feature off

windows needs to update

feature mysteriously turned back on

repeat ad nauseam

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I feel like people are being surprisingly optimistic about this

[–] deleted@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I genuinely feel most of them are Microsoft bots.

[–] PancakeLegend@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are some dark patterns in the setup experience that might cause that.

Turn off the "Show me the Windows welcome experience after updates..." and the "Suggest ways I can finish setting up..." options in settings.

I bet if you're having preferences change on you, it's because you're clicking ok or next without reading during these nag screens.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

No. I have definitely had the "suggest ways to finish setting up" setting revert itself after quarterly Windows feature updates. There was no prompt and it never asked me. It also reverts my fast startup setting, which on my particular motherboard causes Windows to take half an hour to boot. So I tend to notice that one when it changes the setting behind my back.

I find this immensely irritating. (The "finish setting up" option is the one that causes it to nag you every ~5 startups to create a Microsoft account, if you are using a local account like a sane person.)

You can disable these in Group Policy Editor, if you are running Windows 10 Pro or any of its myriad enterprise versions, and have admin permissions. If you do that insofar as I have observed they stay disabled. If you are running Win10 home, I believe the trick still works where you can steal a copy of the Group Policy snap-in (gpedit.msc) from a Pro copy of Windows via flash drive or whatever and just plonk it in your Windows folder, and it works.

[–] neoman4426@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Super dumb they don't have it by default, but there are third party projects to patch the functionality in at least