Hello. Windows CoPilot has started appearing on our machines. Does anyone have a neat solution to remove/disable it via Hexnode?
Can disable via command line or powershell with:
reg add HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot /v "TurnOffWindowsCopilot" /t REG_DWORD /f /d 1
But this doesn’t work with a script on Hexnode, and it also doesn’t remove CoPilot from the Taskbar.
Anyone got some suggestions for removing this?
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Hello @Clyde,
Please execute the PowerShell script given below to disable Microsoft Copilot via Hexnode UEM:
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#script to disable copilot in windows function Get-CurrentUser() { try { $currentUser=Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_ComputerSystem | Select-Object -ExpandProperty UserName if (-NOT[string]::IsNullOrEmpty($currentUser)) { $currentUser=$currentUser.Split("\")[1] Write-Output $currentUser } else { Write-Host "Script cannot be executed->no user is currently active on the system" Write-Output "0" } } catch { Write-Host "Error occured while getting current user -> ",$_.Exception.Message Write-Output "0" } } function Get-UserSID([string]$fCurrentUser) { try { $user = New-Object System.Security.Principal.NTAccount($fcurrentUser) $sid = $user.Translate([System.Security.Principal.SecurityIdentifier]) if (-NOT[string]::IsNullOrEmpty($sid)) { Write-Output $sid.Value } else { Write-Host "SID is empty!" Write-Output "0" } } catch { Write-Host "Error occured while getting user sid -> ",$_.Exception.Message Write-Output "0" } } Write-Host "--------------starting script execution--------------" $currentUser = Get-CurrentUser if ($currentUser -ne "0"){ $currentUserSID = Get-UserSID $currentUser if ($currentUserSID -ne "0"){ $userRegistryPath = "Registry::HKEY_USERS\$($currentUserSID)\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot" #"HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot". if(Test-Path -path "$userRegistryPath") { Write-host "Setting up registry key" } else { New-Item -Path "$userRegistryPath" Write-host "Setting up registry key" } Set-ItemProperty -Path $userRegistryPath -Name TurnOffWindowsCopilot -Value 1 #Enable=0/Disable=1. } } Write-Host "--------------Copilot configured for user $currentUser. Restart Device --------------" |
Please try it out and let us know how it goes!
Best regards,
Chloe Edison
Hexnode UEM
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