Windows is malware.
Always was.
I have to use Teams for work. Every time I upload a PowerPoint it’s 30s of waiting before I can put it into presentation mode, and the error message if I hammer the button is " we’re still loading your PowerPoint", and I can SEE it’s already loaded. The event that marks when I can hit the button? Is when the search bar turns into a copilot prompt bar.
User/IT error.
Don’t you ever get sick of just being the eternal contrarian for absolutely no reason?
I’m not in the mood today, CallMeAnAI. Go troll somewhere else.
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You also need to go through the settings with an electron microscope and turn off all the data collection stuff. The text prediction, dictionary, pen and tablet stuff, it all collects and sends data to MS. There’s a bunch of services that you need to turn off as well- some of them you can’t.
Optimally you would take a scalpel to the registry and group policy editor.
There’s a bunch of super useful scripts you can find on github, too!
Edit: Oh shit how could I forget, remove all the microsoft bullshit rules in the firewall as well.
Do those all degrade the speed of copy and paste as well?
I have no clue, but it sure as fuck doesn’t improve any performance metric.
Is there a list somewhere of everything you should turn off?
Here’s a powershell script you can run that takes care of most problems: https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat
Make sure to read the whole readme before you run it! It works for Win10 too.
And here’s a great tweaking tool from MajorGeeks.com, which can keep you occupied for a few hours:
https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/majorgeeks_registry_tweaks.htmlBefore you make any changes, do a full system backup so that in case things start getting wonky, you can revert it. This often happens because a lot of the crap is deeply hooked into the system (guess why), so when you remove or disable stuff, sometimes you get some unpredictable or annoying behaviors.
It takes years to learn all the ins and outs of properly performing Windows debloating surgery, but the satisfaction is real, and worth it.
Happy slicing! :)
Thank you so much!
My pleasure! <3
Microsoft is run entirely by incompetent idiots.
How does one disable copilot in Word? The things I’ve thought of don’t seem to work or it wouldn’t let me do.
I’m quite sure they still upload it, but they don’t wait for it to process (and give you hints and tips or whatever).
If you use Wireshark you can see what is going on.
TLS encrypted traffic
To be fair, you can see TLS traffic. It isn’t invisible, just opaque.
A stream suddenly as soon as you paste that goes off to Akamai is certainly suspicious, and probably related.
You can use Charles Proxy with their certificate on windows
Netsh trace
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Soon we will need a program to make settings in our program.
A “Windows Manager Manager”
Maybe it’s an O365 thing. I don’t have any Copilot options in Word, checked instructions from various sources, nada. But it is slow to paste. Oh well, got the license free from work, not a subscription. Only use word for unserious shit like making a flea market sign.
Once again, a “Windows evil” post that I cannot replicate, don’t have the invasive things I’m supposed to be seeing, no issue. I have a feeling I disabled a bunch of BS on the original install, which started on 10, same SSD in 3 PCs. Also, it’s a vanilla ISO, that probably helps a lot.
