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If you want Copilot out of sight — or gone entirely — this guide walks through every practical method for removing, disabling, or blocking Microsoft Copilot on Windows 11, from the safest GUI options up to durable enterprise controls and AppLocker/WDAC enforcement. It explains what each step actually does, shows exact registry keys and PowerShell commands you’ll need, highlights the durability trade‑offs, and warns about the risks: Windows updates and tenant provisioning can reintroduce...

Welcome to Imagem Windows 11 — The Realm of Intense Gaming! You wrote: “Welcome to imagem windows 11 — The Realm of Intense Gaming! … I’m giving you only one star becz there is problem when imagem windows 11 I chose to play with…” I dug into this for you: what that page actually shows, what has been happening with Windows 11 and games, why you (and many others) saw crashes/unresponsiveness, and concrete steps you can take now. Below is a long-form, practical feature-style writeup you can use...

Microsoft has started an automated, phased replacement of expiring Secure Boot certificates on eligible Windows 11 systems, a preventative move to avoid widespread boot‑level serviceability and security loss when long‑running Microsoft certificates issued circa 2011 begin to expire in mid‑2026. Background / Overview UEFI Secure Boot enforces a firmware‑anchored chain of trust that prevents unsigned or tampered pre‑OS code (bootloaders, shim, option ROMs) from executing during system startup...

Microsoft's multi-month redesign of the Windows 11 Start menu quietly crossed a new threshold this month: the updated single‑page, Categories layout is appearing on far more machines after installation of the January 2026 cumulative update (KB5074109), but the new experience still exposes a glaring omission — there is no way to resize the Start menu, and that omission undermines what should be a clear usability win. Background Microsoft began testing a reimagined Start menu for Windows 11 in...

Microsoft Thailand’s new “AI for Social Impact” training, run with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), the Collaborative Center for Digital Development Knowledge Management (CCDKM) at Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University (STOU) and the Digital Economy Promotion Agency (depa), is an ambitious, vendor-led attempt to put generative AI tools and prompt engineering into the hands of civil-society leaders and practitioners — a program that promises...

West Midlands Police’s controversial recommendation to ban Israeli supporters from an Aston Villa Europa League match has culminated in a public rebuke from the Home Secretary, a formal apology from the force’s chief constable and a new, urgent conversation about how artificial intelligence tools are being used — and misused — inside UK policing. Shabana Mahmood told Parliament she “no longer has confidence” in Chief Constable Craig Guildford after a watchdog report and subsequent inquiries...

Microsoft’s balance sheet and corporate muscle look built for a long AI summer, but the company’s sprint to scale infrastructure raises as many strategic and regulatory questions as it answers about the future of Azure, Copilot, and Microsoft’s ties to the hardest-to-predict partner of all: OpenAI. Background / Overview Microsoft entered the 2020s as a resurgent cloud leader; by 2025–2026 it has shifted into a company whose fortunes are largely tethered to how well it supplies and monetizes...

Microsoft has released an out‑of‑band patch — KB5037422 for Windows Server 2022 (with matching OOB packages for other server SKUs) to address a memory‑leak in the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) that was introduced by the March 12, 2024 security rollup (notably KB5035857 and sibling March updates). The leak, observed while domain controllers (DCs) service Kerberos authentication requests, caused LSASS to consume growing amounts of memory and in many environments led to...

Microsoft is flipping a decades‑old Kerberos default in Windows Server — and IT teams must treat it as an operational deadline, not a theoretical security tweak. Background / Overview Microsoft has announced a change to how the Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC) on Windows domain controllers will select encryption types for Kerberos session keys: AES‑SHA1 (AES128/AES256 CTS‑HMAC‑SHA1‑96) will become the default enctype, and RC4 (RC4‑HMAC / RC4‑NTLM‑derived) will be disabled by default...

Microsoft’s PowerToys v0.45.0 is the release that finally gave the long-running utility suite a visual identity that matches Windows 11 — but the update is more than a skin-deep tweak. The v0.45.0 cycle focused on stability, accessibility, and installer improvements while introducing a Fluent‑style settings UI and a handful of meaningful bug fixes across nearly every module, laying groundwork for the experimental additions that followed shortly after. Background PowerToys began as a grab‑bag...

NVIDIA’s archived GeForce driver branch that includes version 341.74 is a legitimate, vendor-published Windows 10 x64 package released to support legacy GeForce families — and yes, it is the driver many owners of older cards such as the GeForce 9800 GT will still turn to when attempting to run those GPUs on Windows 10. The build is listed on NVIDIA’s official driver pages as GeForce Windows 10 Driver — Version 341.74 (released July 29, 2015) and is published as a 64‑bit package for Windows...

Windows 11 ships with a lot of useful features — and an equal amount of defaults that many power users call intrusive, noisy, or wasteful. After a fresh install it can feel like an advertisement platform that happens to run an operating system. The six changes below address the biggest practical complaints: remove Copilot and its background footprint, stop in‑OS ads and lock‑screen junk, silence OneDrive prompts and automatic sync, minimize telemetry, trim startup apps, and remove Bing web...

Microsoft pushed the first cumulative for Windows 11 in 2026 — KB5074109 — to devices on January 13, 2026, folding last month’s preview fixes and a raft of staged, Copilot-era UI and gaming polish into the 24H2/25H2 servicing stream while also addressing several reliability concerns that mattered to handheld and NPU-equipped PCs. Background / Overview Windows 11’s servicing model has shifted toward incremental, staged feature delivery: binaries are shipped broadly while higher‑visibility...

Microsoft’s Canary preview has quietly flipped the version string to Windows 11, version 26H1, but this is not the next consumer feature release — it’s a platform-first engineering baseline built to enable next‑generation silicon and OEM device images rather than a mass feature update for existing x64 PCs. Background / Overview Microsoft published Insider Preview Build 28000 to the Canary Channel and deliberately clarified that “26H1 is not a feature update for version 25H2 and only includes...

Microsoft’s January cumulative for Windows 11, KB5074109, intended to deliver security fixes and platform improvements, has produced a ripple of real‑world problems: some PCs fail to install the package with servicing errors such as 0x800f0922 and 0x80070306, while other systems—particularly machines running NVIDIA GPUs—are reporting intermittent black screens and display freezes. Microsoft’s release notes and community telemetry confirm the update landed on January 13, 2026, and while it...

Microsoft Copilot users face a new prompt-injection vector that researchers say can be triggered with a single click — a technique reported as “Reprompt” that abuses URL parameters to feed malicious prompts into Copilot, bypass built‑in safeguards, and siphon sensitive content from user sessions without further interaction. The disclosure rekindles familiar patterns from earlier AI‑assistant attacks — indirect prompt injection, interactive output exfiltration, and OAuth‑consent deception —...

Microsoft’s new “Community‑First AI Infrastructure” pledge is a strategic pivot: the company promises to ensure its U.S. AI data‑center expansion won’t raise household electricity bills, will sharply cut and replenish local water use, will deliver local jobs and training, and will pay property taxes and invest in civic institutions — a five‑point commitment designed to defuse community opposition and reset the rules for hyperscale infrastructure growth. Background / Overview The scale and...

SAS has opened a new, government‑sovereign route for its Viya analytics platform: SAS Viya is now available to U.S. public‑sector organizations and their system‑integrator partners through Microsoft Azure Government as a managed offering—SAS Managed Cloud Services on Microsoft Azure Government—bringing the company’s full-stack analytics, ModelOps and “trustworthy AI” tooling into a physically isolated, U.S.-only cloud environment specifically designed for federal, state and local workloads...

Zorin OS 18 has quietly become one of the most visible beneficiaries of Windows 10’s end of support, crossing the 2 million downloads mark in under three months after its October 14, 2025 launch — and the Zorin team says roughly three‑quarters of those downloads originated on Windows machines, a figure that has reignited debate about whether Linux is finally converting serious numbers of desktop users. Background / Overview Microsoft formally ended mainstream, free support for Windows 10 on...

If you booted your PC recently and found a much larger, unfamiliar Start menu waiting for you, that sudden change is not a bug — it’s the new, redesigned Windows 11 Start rolling out to users now, delivered via optional servicing packages and staged feature flags that can make the appearance feel sudden and inconsistent across devices. Background / Overview Microsoft has reworked the Windows 11 Start menu into a single, vertically scrollable surface that places your pinned apps...