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

[Brian Shell]

This registry modification worked about a year ago, but I just tried it and the ai.exe process still runs when I open Office.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows
Create a subkey here called: WindowsCopilot
Within the new key, create a DWORD 32 value: TurnOffWindowsCopilot
Data: 1

Another way might be create a script to check if the ai.exe file exists, and if true, delete it.  Then create a scheduled task to trigger on every startup and attached a script to the action.  Also set the task to run as user "SYSTEM".  You might also take a backup of the .exe first since I'm not sure what would happen if you delete it.  The consensus from the internet is that it makes the issue go away until the next Office updates install.  Most patches require a restart anyway, so I figure a scheduled task would work.

On 6/1/2024 1:45 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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