Windows 11 Copilot Preview: 5 Things to Try

Check out five useful things you can do with Windows Copilot in Windows 11 that make finding your way around your PC much easier and faster. Read the CNET article for more info: With Windows Copilot, AI Is Getting Into Microsoft’s Most Important Software 0:00 Intro 0:52 Grant Access to Active Edge Browser Tab 1:17…

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Check out five useful things you can do with Windows Copilot in Windows 11 that make finding your way around your PC much easier and faster.

Read the CNET article for more info:
With Windows Copilot, AI Is Getting Into Microsoft’s Most Important Software

0:00 Intro
0:52 Grant Access to Active Edge Browser Tab
1:17 Enable Dark Mode
1:32 Take a Screenshot
1:54 Turn on Do Not Disturb
2:09 Open Bluetooth & Devices
2:35 Summarize a text file or webpage
3:02 Generate an image from text with Bing Image Creator

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31 Comments

Jamie Bancroft

August 17, 2023 at 8:27 am

Sorry Jesus. Windows is my CoPilot now.

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Emmanuël M

August 17, 2023 at 8:31 am

I hope that this isn’t all of it because you can do those things today with the search bar.

The fact that you could ask your computer to do things for you without having to do anything else would be an awesome game changer.

Imagine you could ask Copilot to become your mailmanager and doing so it would reply to mails with your consent and create an overview of all important mails that need follow up at the end of each week. Like a “Secretary” of some kind ????

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HarrMick

August 17, 2023 at 8:32 am

How do you remove this feature and any AI bs from a PC?

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- eli vegba
  
  August 17, 2023 at 9:30 am
  
  Your machine is artificially intelligent.
  To try this will be like trying to strip a large chunk of your pc away.
  Good luck
  
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Wojtek Chojnacki

August 17, 2023 at 8:35 am

Apart from „summerize” feature seems it’s doing pretty much the same as Spotlight search and Siri have been doing on Mac for years. I guess it will get much more complex one day but that’s my intitial impression for the moment.

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Mayur M

August 17, 2023 at 8:42 am

Let’s hope that it’ll not suffer the same fate as Cortana.

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Steve Tech

August 17, 2023 at 8:50 am

Calling it Copilot is giving it way too much credibility. They should have gone with Apprentice or similar IMO. ????

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- Hassassinator
  
  August 17, 2023 at 2:49 pm
  
  Unpaid assistant
  
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Harishankar H

August 17, 2023 at 8:51 am

Most of these tasks can be done instantly with keyboard shortcuts

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- sai varun annadata
  
  August 17, 2023 at 9:24 am
  
  thats what generative ai really is at this point ????????
  
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- полночный свет
  
  August 17, 2023 at 12:41 pm
  
  @sai varun annadataYes AI is keyboard shortcuts. WTF are you smoking
  
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- Comp
  
  August 17, 2023 at 9:18 pm
  
  Pressing Win + Shift + S is a lot faster than asking Copilot for a Snipping Tool access
  
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Anders Løbger

August 17, 2023 at 9:30 am

You reference Edge and Bing as if they are widely used.

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Stephen Victor

August 17, 2023 at 9:41 am

Can copilot make file explorer not buggy like it is now?!

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alex3261

August 17, 2023 at 9:57 am

Awesome, now we have an AI assisted copilot to take screenshots, after typying 10 letters, instead of just pressing the Print Screen key!
Great job Microsoft!

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- Hassassinator
  
  August 17, 2023 at 2:49 pm
  
  The future is now.
  
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Helal Chowdhury

August 17, 2023 at 10:14 am

This should have been done 10 years ago.

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Hi There

August 17, 2023 at 10:29 am

Sooooo ….. basically its useless. This is just a tool to use Windows over complicated interface.
What a shame to admit that we made simple thing that complicated that we need a special tool to use it 😀

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Christopher Burke

August 17, 2023 at 10:40 am

Can it turn off Edge tab grouping ?

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Gary Beltz

August 17, 2023 at 11:50 am

Now if only I could get something like that which would get me a date j/k

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Balajee Ks

August 17, 2023 at 11:57 am

Cortana left the chat

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LowMax

August 17, 2023 at 12:14 pm

Not impressive at all. It’s just a glorified search for buttons.

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Youtube Watcher

August 17, 2023 at 12:15 pm

This could be useful.

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Esterenzo

August 17, 2023 at 1:10 pm

What happened to Cortana

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beachbumsailordude

August 17, 2023 at 1:42 pm

I already hate the way they have changed Bing with the AI crap. I’m actually thinking of uninstalling Bing.

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RandoTuber

August 17, 2023 at 2:14 pm

Does it have a feature to turn it off?

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Михаил Исаев

August 17, 2023 at 2:32 pm

Hey siri….

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Hussien Alsafi

August 17, 2023 at 3:40 pm

????????????????????????????

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Ou8y2k2

August 17, 2023 at 4:34 pm

Nice. So Cortana 2.0. This generative ‘AI’ grift is reaching its apex. I clearly remember commenting that Windows 12 would have a built-in generative ‘AI’ that mines every user action on a Nick White video. Well, I was about two years too late. Cortana 2.0 could be gone by the release of Windows 12. lol

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Goa

August 17, 2023 at 7:15 pm

This should have been cortana

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Dragon-Core

August 17, 2023 at 8:23 pm

Reskinned ChatGPT.

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