Microsoft Quietly Installs Copilot App on Windows PC

As discovered via German tech site DeskModder, Microsoft began automatically installing a Copilot app on Windows 11. The new app doesn’t seem to have any features, and further research revealed that it comprises 0 full data points, suggesting that it’s a placeholder. peel for the maximum part. Fortunately, users can uninstall the app by simply employing the built-in “Uninstall” option in Windows.

If you’re wondering if the new Copilot app is surreptitiously installed on your Windows 11 PC, you can check by going to Settings, clicking on Apps, and then entering Installed Apps. If it’s already on your device, it will be indexed as “Microsoft Copilot”. You can click on the three-dot menu button on the right and “Advanced Options” to see more main points about it.

It’s unclear how the Copilot app installs on systems that have automatic updates disabled, but according to Ghacks, it appeared on its test PC after the Edge browser was updated to the lacheck edition. Interestingly, the AppxManifest. xml app lists Windows 10 as the minimum supported edition, while the maximum edition is indexed as Windows 12. 0. 0. 0.

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