By Maya Posch
Publication Date: 2025-12-19 03:00:00
It seems a fair assessment that the many “AI” features Microsoft has added to Windows 11 are at least somewhat controversial. Unsurprisingly, this has led many to consider disabling or removing these features altogether, with (zoicware’s) “Remove Windows AI” project on GitHub attempting to automate this process as much as possible.
All you need to use is your Windows 11 affected system running at least 25H2 and the PowerShell script. The script is of course run with administrative privileges because it needs to make some changes to the Windows registry and prevent Windows Update from reverting many of the changes. There’s also a GUI for those who prefer just flicking a few switches in a UI rather than executing console commands.
Things that can be disabled automatically include disabling Copilot, Recall, AI Actions and other integrations in applications like Edge, Paint, etc. Reinstalling removed packages is…