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How to enable Copilot on a Windows 11 computer
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Published onAugust 29, 2023
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AI is all the rage these days, and Microsoft has made a new splash with its new Copilot program. First announced on March 16, 2023, theCopilot programis an artificial intelligence assistant feature for Microsoft 365 applications and services.
Like otherAI technologies such as ChatGPT, the AI program from Microsoft uses large language models (LLMs) to improve your productivity—this time on your Microsoft tools like Teams, Outlook, Word, and so on. Amongst other soft tasks, that tool also comes in handy in summarizing your emails or reading documents.
Pretty cool tool, right?
And, while the device is not available on all Windows computers by default—it’s only available for users withWindows 11 Insider Preview Build 23493 or higher in the Dev Channel—you can still grab and use the new tool manually. Let’s jump in and see how.
How to enable Copilot on a Windows 11 Computer
If you have enrolled into theInsider Preview Build 23493 or higher in the Dev Channel, you might have the Windows Copilot enabled in your PC by default. However, if you aren’t using the Dev Channel then you might have to rely on external help, which in this case will be ViveTool.
Before you download ViveTool to run Copilot, we’d also like to state that ViveTool has sometimes been found to cause problems in Windows, breaking many of its rules, and for that reason is generally not liked in the Microsoft community.
So if you cannot run Copilot yet, it might be better to be on the side of caution and perhaps wait for little more. You cancheck out ViveTool on GitHuband decide for yourself.
If you want to enable Copilot regardless, though, then follow the steps below:
Remember to change the path to the folder with your folder’s address in the command above.
After you have followed the above steps, give your PC a quick reboot right away. Just head toSettings > Personalizationand click on theTaskbartab.
From there, turn on the toggle on theCopilot (preview)switch to enable theCopilotapp.
That’s it, really. Now that you have enabled the Copilot switch, you can quickly launch it by pressing theWindows key + Cshortcut.
Enabling Copilot on a Windows 11 PC
Again, the feature is still in its initial phases, so it’s left to seen what you can do with it. But follow the above steps, and you can run the beta version for fiddling around with the features that best fit your daily uses for now.
Radu Tyrsina
Radu Tyrsina has been a Windows fan ever since he got his first PC, a Pentium III (a monster at that time).
For most of the kids of his age, the Internet was an amazing way to play and communicate with others, but he was deeply impressed by the flow of information and how easily you can find anything on the web.
Prior to founding Windows Report, this particular curiosity about digital content enabled him to grow a number of sites that helped hundreds of millions reach faster the answer they’re looking for.
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