It seems like a fair assessment to state that the many ‘AI’ features that Microsoft added to Windows 11 are at least somewhat controversial. Unsurprisingly, this has led many to wonder about disabling ...

There are lots of things that have gone viral, for all sorts of different reasons. The latest viral craze struck after a developer released a tool to strip Windows of its AI capabilities, and X is ...

Microsoft is pushing artificial intelligence deeper into Windows 11 with every major update. From Copilot in the taskbar and Recall recording your activity, to AI-powered actions in File Explorer and ...

Microsoft Copilot is an AI assistant in Windows 11 designed to help with tasks, but many users find it unnecessary and want to remove it due to privacy concerns and ...

There is perhaps nothing that has plagued the electronics consumer quite as much as bloatware. It’s omnipresent in most modern operating systems and products, whether it’s extra stuff on Android ...

Pre-installed software, often called bloatware, can clutter your Windows 11 experience from the moment you first turn on a new PC. These unwanted applications consume valuable disk space, use up ...

Cortana was Microsoft’s voice assistant designed to compete with Siri and Alexa, but it has now been officially discontinued. Despite this, it still appears on many Windows 11 systems, consuming ...

With Java 24 being a non-LTS release it has been superseded by Java 25. We can remove Java 24 from our CI matrix in 3.5.x and later. We'll keep Java 24 in the CI matrix for 3.4.x as we haven't added ...

Have you ever wondered how much control you really have over your Windows 11 system? Beneath its polished interface lies a maze of pre-installed apps, intrusive tracking features, and bloated settings ...

On the desktop and in Windows Explorer, the entry “Ask Copilot” has been appearing in the context menu when right-clicking on a registered file type such as DOCX, TXT, PDF or PNG for a few weeks now.