Microsoft has made a move to ship all Windows 11 PCs with AI ready features, much to the chagrin of its end users. The addition of AI slop to the operating system has resulted in some rather disastrous consequences, which include suboptimal OS performance and in certain cases, complete regressions with nasty bugs.
Thankfully, the open source community comes to the rescue once again, and even if you’re hesitant to switch over to Linux right now, there does exist a tool that can disable most AI features baked into Windows 11 these days.
How to Remove AI Features From Windows 11 and Take Back Control of Your PC
You can remove AI features in their entirety with the help of custom PowerShell script, courtesy of user zoicware on GitHub. The installation process for the script is pretty straightforward though, and here’s the whole process from start to finish:
- Boot into Windows 11 on your machine and fire up an elevated PowerShell window.
- Search for ‘PowerShell’ on the start menu, and click on the ‘Run as Administrator’ option from the right hand side of the UI.
- Paste in the command, & ([scriptblock]::Create((irm “https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI/main/RemoveWindowsAi.ps1”))) into the PowerShell window and hit the Enter key.
- Choose your options and you should be done!
Microsoft is continually adding in newer AI features, so the script will be constantly updated over time. Additionally, not all AI features can be removed using a script, so other parts of the process require some manual intervention.
Full details can be found hosted on the official GitHub page for the script.
It’s also recommended that you restart your PC or laptop after running the script on your machine.
Running random scripts from the internet can be a bit scary at times, and so the developer has shared the entire documentation of the script on their GitHub page as well to reassure users.
