First, One Drive. Don't want it, didn't ask for it, don't use it.
Now, this copilot preview thingie. Yes, I understand I can get rid of it but I swear, MS/windows has gotten worse than any robocall or solar panel sales pitch and about twice/year, those dang folks descend en masse on this subdivision like vultures. .

I knew you wuz gonna say something along those 'the penguin don't care' line.

quote Originally posted by maryjane: First, One Drive. Don't want it, didn't ask for it, don't use it. Now, this copilot preview thingie.

I don't know what those apps are, as I don't have 'em on my Win10 PC. My experience is that unwanted apps don't just appear on their own. Often they are "extras" that are packaged along with something else that's been requested/downloaded, and they weren't prevented from being installed along with the desired app/program.

I'm running win10 on this laptop. Copilot is microsoft's AI assistant. This is the preview for it that MS is currently rolling out to try to get people to try, like, then buy/download the full suite.

One Drive is Microsoft's cloud storage. I don't use it either.

[This message has been edited by maryjane (edited 03-12-2024).]

Seems to me I now recall being presented by MS with the option (at different times) to install those apps, which I turned down. I run a mean clean machine used for photo and video editing (and internet), so I have as little background crap running as possible.

This is why many use Win10/11 Pro just so can disable "Feature Updates" in GPedit or delay in Win Update.
But even then M$ think is Apple & do everything w/ little to no warning even to Enterprises using "VLM" program.

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Yep, that's OneDrive.

Here's how to uninstall it:

https://www.techspot.com/ne...ve-windows-good.html

[This message has been edited by TheDigitalAlchemist (edited 03-13-2024).]