[NFBCS] O.T.: Permanently Disable Artificial Intelligence Process on Windows 10

Sat Jun 1 22:56:37 UTC 2024

            There might be something behind the Gmail part, although I cannot say what. With my Comcast account, messages go out immediately, but Gmail often does not send—and then there is the “Unsent messages, close or stay open” thing. Also, Gmail messages take forever to show up in sent—I don’t have Outlook immediately put copies in the Sent folder because I ultimately end up with two copies if I do that.

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Subject: Re: [NFBCS] O.T.: Permanently Disable Artificial Intelligence Process on Windows 10

I have not used the ai yet.

My Outlook has been locking up for the past 2 years.

I even called it in and documented. Got tired of them uninstalling and playing the game, just get him aggravated and tired and maybe he will go away.

So at least Once per day my outlook locks up. I follow numerous large forums, although I clear them constantly and it helps reduce the lock up.  However, that approach aggravates some out here when I reply to something I recall out of the thread. Too lazy to to find in trash and undelete to reply .

They told me 2 years ago it was a problem with gmail/pop servers.  Although I am using mime connections.

Lewis Wood

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Subject: Re: [NFBCS] O.T.: Permanently Disable Artificial Intelligence Process on Windows 10

Some background in the post here marked answer (from "Joshua Burkholder ( MSFT )"):

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/office16-aiexe/ecab05bf-3910-4810-ba45-0c44a94071ee

I don't know (yet) if this works correctly, but maybe a batch file scheduled at intervals that deletes or renames ai.exe in the appropriate paths for your Office installation?

Apparently it re-surfaces after Office--and God knows what other Windows--updates. I also don't know if you need to axe ai.dll and aimgr.exe too, despite the posted info that the internal AI calls just silently fail when ai.exe is not found.

Thanks for this. I hadn't noticed lag here and so hadn't paid attention. but now--and especially after seeing recall--I want out too!

On 6/1/2024 12:45 PM, Nicole Torcolini via NFBCS wrote:

            I know that this is not really related to accessibility, but does anyone know how to permanently disable the artificial intelligence process on Windows 10 64 bit? Whenever it runs, it prevents Microsoft Outlook from closing properly, so both processes are still running in the background, and Outlook will not open again—even though it is not on the taskbar; the only way to fix it is to use the task manager to kill both processes. I have used Cygwin to chmod 000 (block all access) to ai.exe, but, no matter how many times that I do that, Microsoft somehow manages to restore the permissions and run that process.

Nicole who is fighting with Microsoft for control of her laptop

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