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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>I have not used the ai yet.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>My Outlook has been locking up for the past 2 years.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>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 .<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>They told me 2 years ago it was a problem with gmail/pop servers. Although I am using mime connections.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Lewis Wood<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces@nfbnet.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jim Bauer via NFBCS<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, June 1, 2024 3:52 PM<br><b>To:</b> nfbcs@nfbnet.org<br><b>Cc:</b> Jim Bauer <holdsworthfan@eml.cc><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [NFBCS] O.T.: Permanently Disable Artificial Intelligence Process on Windows 10<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Some background in the post here marked answer (from "Joshua Burkholder ( MSFT )"):<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/office16-aiexe/ecab05bf-3910-4810-ba45-0c44a94071ee">https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/office16-aiexe/ecab05bf-3910-4810-ba45-0c44a94071ee</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 6/1/2024 12:45 PM, Nicole Torcolini via NFBCS wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> 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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Nicole who is fighting with Microsoft for control of her laptop<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>NFBCS mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:NFBCS@nfbnet.org">NFBCS@nfbnet.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbcs_nfbnet.org">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbcs_nfbnet.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for NFBCS:<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbcs_nfbnet.org/holdsworthfan%40eml.cc">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbcs_nfbnet.org/holdsworthfan%40eml.cc</a><o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><p><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>