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Microsoft is silently installing Copilot onto Windows Server 2022 (mastodon.gamedev.place)

submitted 7 months ago by lemmyreader@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (5 children)

It installed itself on my laptop during the last update. Anyone know how to remove it? Will uninstall actually get rid of it?

[–] IggyTheSmidge@kbin.social 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I don't have a Windows 11 machine available, so I can't get you the exact command, but this should get you there.
It should remove it from all users on the laptop, and (hopefully!) prevent it from coming back:

Open Powershell and run:
Get-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online | Where-Object {$_.displayname -like "*Copilot*"}

Copy the Package Name entry and run the following command, with PACKAGENAME replaced by what you just copied:
Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -online -packagename PACKAGENAME

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Will uninstall actually get rid of it?

maybe for a couple months

[–] ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

In the EU you can just uninstall it.

[–] Murdoc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

Try asking it. 😆

[–] Wooki@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

Microsoft has a whole suite of exfiltration tools such as telemetry and searchapp. Check out what searchapp does next time you search for anything. Those searches are going to microsoft online services, what about thr index?. So youve reached the tip of the of the spyware operating system.