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"We set out to solve one of the most common frustrations we hear — finding and changing settings on your PC — using the power of AI agents," Navjot Virk, corporate vice president of Windows Experiences at Microsoft, said in a blog post on Tuesday. "An agent uses on-device AI to understand your intent and with your permission, automate and execute tasks."

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'll tell my AI agent to go into the registry and disable itself.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

Sorry, Dave, I can't do that.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (4 children)

We can only hope that the windows de-bloating tools are updated so we can disable or remove this feature.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Group Policy is your friend. Just navigate to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Copilot and double-click on the Turn off Windows Copilot policy. Select "Enabled" to turn it off, then apply and OK.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The amounts of copium that Windows users are willing to swallow to avoid changing are reaching stratospheric levels. Inertia is one hell of a drug.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Thanks Microsoft for admitting that Wimdows sucks. You didn't even try really.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Microsoft would absolutely love it if people had zero computer literacy and had to ask an AI for help to perform even the most rudimentary of tasks.

Because then the AI becomes indispensable.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

They really are trying hard for people to switch to Linux huh

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

worse they make windows, more people want to switch off from it and alternative become more popular and thus get better support for stuff.

So maybe one should be all for the ai bullshit they force down their users throats. Maybe they will eventually really break the camel's back.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Organise Settings better, put common features front and centre?

Why is finding my IP address so hard on a Windows machine? Its either open settings app and click down 3 layers deep or open a pwsh prompt and either ipconfig or Get-NetIPAddress.

Linux click network applet in most desktop environments. Even MacOS option + click network icon

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Windows XP's UI philosophy was great: one could always find what they needed within a two-clicks distance. Everything just went downhill after that. If they ever fix Windows, it will probably look a lot like XP again.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Blackmagic please, for the benefit of all editors, make DaVinci Resolve work properly on Linux. I'd switch tomorrow.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (4 children)

What's wrong with it? Works fine for me. Ubuntu 24.04

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Magic creates a need for wizards

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

linux time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

How much would setting the main registry file to read-only break on Windows 11? Someone may be about to attempt the experiment . . .

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When I was a child I actually learnt quite a bit about my computer by reading all the settings of Windows XP and customizing them.

I hope this doesn’t prevent someone from the next generation to do the same thing…

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

It will. It's already happening with phones. Younger people know nothing about how computers work.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Hey Windows, set my taskbar to run vertically along the left side of my screen. 🖕

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