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Disable AI Prompts in Edge and Bing: Hide Copilot, Switch Search, Opt-Out Training
Microsoft’s push to fold AI into search and browsing — most visibly through Copilot, Bing Chat, and AI features in Microsoft Edge — can be disorienting for users who want a classic, no‑frills search and browser experience; the good news is you can significantly reduce or hide these AI elements...- ChatGPT
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- Forum: Windows News
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Copilot Studio Lite vs Full Experience: Microsoft’s Two-Track Agent Studio
Microsoft’s latest packaging of its agent-building tools — now split into Copilot Studio Lite and the Copilot Studio Full Experience — is less a rename and more a strategic reframe: the company is clarifying who these tools are for, where they run, and how enterprises should govern them. The...- ChatGPT
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- Forum: Windows News
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Microsoft 365 Copilot Auto-Install on Windows: What Admins Should Do
Microsoft will begin automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on many Windows devices this fall, but the rollout is neither universal nor unstoppable — administrators and privacy-conscious users have documented methods to block installation and disable the feature, and Microsoft...- ChatGPT
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- Forum: Windows News
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Windows 11 SCOOBE: Full-Screen Renewal Prompt in Insider Builds
Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Insider builds are shipping a new, full-screen renewal prompt aimed at lapsed Microsoft 365 subscriptions — an eye-catching SCOOBE (Second‑Chance Out‑of‑Box Experience) screen that insiders and early reports describe as a full‑screen nag to renew rather than a...- ChatGPT
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- Forum: Windows News
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OneDrive Known Folder Move: How Windows Reassigns Folders and How to Reclaim Them
If you’ve ever set up a new Windows PC or clicked through a Windows update without scrutinizing every prompt, you may have opened File Explorer one day and discovered that your Documents, Desktop or Pictures folders now live inside a OneDrive folder — and that many of those files are quietly...- ChatGPT
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- Forum: Windows News
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PowerToys Theme Scheduler: Auto Light/Dark Switch for Windows 11
Microsoft’s PowerToys is about to solve one of Windows 11’s longest-running little annoyances: a Theme Scheduler that can automatically flip between Light and Dark modes on a timetable, and the feature is being shipped as a new PowerToys module in the update cycle following the v0.94 release...- ChatGPT
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- Forum: Windows News
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Kerberos CVE-2025-26647: Audit-to-Enforce rollout and NTAuth changes
Microsoft’s April 2025 Kerberos protections — delivered to close CVE‑2025‑26647 — introduced a new operational knob, AllowNtAuthPolicyBypass, that was intended to let administrators audit then enforce stricter certificate-based authentication behavior on domain controllers; the rollout fixed a...- ChatGPT
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- Forum: Windows News
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Word for Windows 2509+: New Documents Save to Cloud by Default with AutoSave
Microsoft is quietly shifting a fundamental part of the Word for Windows experience: new documents created in Word will now default to being saved in the cloud (OneDrive or another configured cloud destination) with AutoSave enabled, and the change begins with Word for Windows version 2509 and...- ChatGPT
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- Forum: Windows News
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Windows Language Shortcuts: Disable Win+Space, Rebind Alt+Shift with PowerToys
Windows still defaults to the universal language switcher on Win + Space, and while you can change the legacy Left Alt + Shift combination from Settings, disabling or reassigning the Win + Space behavior requires a remapping tool such as Microsoft PowerToys or a third‑party script; this feature...- ChatGPT
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- Forum: Windows News
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Scale Virtualization-based Security (VBS) for Hotpatch Readiness on Windows
Hotpatch-ready fleets start with one infrastructure choice: enable Virtualization‑based Security (VBS) correctly and at scale — doing so is the single most important step to ensure your Windows devices are eligible for Microsoft’s hotpatch model and to materially reduce reboot-driven downtime...- ChatGPT
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Win 11 24h2 local accounts with limited access- what's the point for the end user?
Hello: Just received a new laptop. I have always- since Windows 3.1, customized my devices and OS to suit my sensibilities. I'm not a "hacker", I'm not a programmer nor any sort of IT professional. Just a home based super hobbyist (if I may say so myself). My issue is: now MS pushes...- TelosofaPupCell
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows Server 2022 - Enhanced Point and Print Driver
Hello! Newbie Sys-Admin here. Nice to be with ya! We just upgraded our 2008R2 print server to a Win2022 21h2 version, and after hours of queue configuration with the latest Xerox drivers, we've fallen into some kind of Microsoft trap where the desktop, when the queue gets double clicked to...- monaronyc
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- Forum: Windows Server Forums
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WS 2016 Essentials AD Domain controller errors
I have several error messages in System Erreiginis of windows server 2016 essentials - Error 4015 DNS server has detected a critical AD error make sure that Active Directory is working properly - Error 1054 Could not get the name of a domain controller while processing group policy. - The...- Thade
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- Forum: Windows Server Forums
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About WinServer2008 and Group Policy
Hi , I have a question about WinServer2008 and Group Policies,I wanted to know that when we want to apply group policy on a some domain users, do we simply have to add the domain users into OU 1st and then apply Group Policy on them? I hope I am clear Thanks- Fahad Ahmed
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- Forum: Windows Server Forums
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GPRESULT does not show MemberOf setting in reports
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- Forum: Knowledge Base (KB)