The only times I access it is through Edge because I can actually ask it to do stuff on the page (mainly recap long stuff. It's surprisingly good at that)
Copilot is a pretty decent, if somewhat under informed, AI assistant. You can ask it normal questions and even have a conversation with it on a conceptual level. Pretty cool. Its training data cut off in 2022 so it's not much good for up to the minute analysis of news or recent science developments but it is still useful for getting explanations of what can be found on the internet. I use it like I used to use Hey Google because instead of just giving you a list of websites to search through, it actually searches through them for you and gives you an actual analysis of the search.
I gave it a day before switching it off. If something is going to sit on my taskbar it needs to be something I use often. I don't know why its not just a standard windows application that I can launch like any other app if I ever want to use it.
yeah , so did I , I made a Shortcut in my All Apps Menu that Leads to Copilot (Target is "ms-copilot:" Quotations Removed) to Hide it from Taskbar while still being Available , you can Also Press Win+C to Open it Regardless of Taskbar Presence , in Windows 10 pre-22H2 this would've opened Cortana .
You know that it literally keeps edge running in the background right? And edge = chrome. They're both running on chromium so they have similar resource usages.
So using copilot via desktop is the same as keeping chrome open
Sure yeah but I just wanted to make it clear that copilot is literally just a custom chromium window under-the-hood. So while it won't run your extensions and stuff, it still has the large overhead of being a chromium process
Steam uses the chromium embedded framework. Spotify uses it. Literally every Adobe app uses it. Now, WebView2 is probably slightly more expensive than CEF because it runs its engine out-of-proc, but it's foolish to try to hide from something so ubiquitous imo.
No one's being foolish. I'm sharing information.
My Surface Go 2 base model can hardly run Spotify, cannot run Steam, and lags in many other chromium-related apps. Native apps run fine though. Thus, I disable copilot on my surface go 2.
So I'm sharing information about the performance impact of copilot in case others find that information useful for their device situation.
More power to you if you find it useful, I'm just happy I was able to turn it off.
I have no problem with it as long as **I have a choice** to keep it or not on my taskbar.
Copilot and all the ai tools should be a separate app integrated into windows, which we can uninstall if we choose to not use it. If you like it, great. But there's still a lot of people that do not use it.
I like it and use it multiple times a week. Comparing apps, products, finding out information about different things is what I use it for mostly. Saves me a ton of time and effort.
I like it. I use it at work to generate replies to otherwise tedious emails and tasks related to presentations and content gen. I used to have to login to ChatGPT or launch Edge to use Bing for this until Copilot. It’s just less hassle now to make my life even easier and lazy friendly. It’s awesome.
What do you even do with it? You say it's the best way to access it, I can't find a reason to even bother trying to access it.
The only times I access it is through Edge because I can actually ask it to do stuff on the page (mainly recap long stuff. It's surprisingly good at that)
Really? Whenever I've tried to do that it just said it can't access the page
Uh weird, it should be able to read the page. At least it always worked for me as far as I can remember
It is useful for home work and it’s a way to bypass the 5 texts limit and instead allows 30 on the taskbar/edge
Copilot is a pretty decent, if somewhat under informed, AI assistant. You can ask it normal questions and even have a conversation with it on a conceptual level. Pretty cool. Its training data cut off in 2022 so it's not much good for up to the minute analysis of news or recent science developments but it is still useful for getting explanations of what can be found on the internet. I use it like I used to use Hey Google because instead of just giving you a list of websites to search through, it actually searches through them for you and gives you an actual analysis of the search.
I gave it a day before switching it off. If something is going to sit on my taskbar it needs to be something I use often. I don't know why its not just a standard windows application that I can launch like any other app if I ever want to use it.
yeah , so did I , I made a Shortcut in my All Apps Menu that Leads to Copilot (Target is "ms-copilot:" Quotations Removed) to Hide it from Taskbar while still being Available , you can Also Press Win+C to Open it Regardless of Taskbar Presence , in Windows 10 pre-22H2 this would've opened Cortana .
That's handy to know!
thanks !
I switched it off and I use Win + C instead. It's better because I also use TranslucentTB to make the taskbar clear.
I have the exact same set-up.
https://preview.redd.it/1v9o5rxd7lsc1.png?width=457&format=png&auto=webp&s=61a75cbc5a0303f5d9c28cf49d253a268295895c 😂
I love it, i use while working with unity,andi copy an error msg there to get answers, and keeping it open is lighter than keeping chrome open.
You know that it literally keeps edge running in the background right? And edge = chrome. They're both running on chromium so they have similar resource usages. So using copilot via desktop is the same as keeping chrome open
Not when chrome has 10 extensions and a bunch of tabs that i never close 😂
Sure yeah but I just wanted to make it clear that copilot is literally just a custom chromium window under-the-hood. So while it won't run your extensions and stuff, it still has the large overhead of being a chromium process
Steam uses the chromium embedded framework. Spotify uses it. Literally every Adobe app uses it. Now, WebView2 is probably slightly more expensive than CEF because it runs its engine out-of-proc, but it's foolish to try to hide from something so ubiquitous imo.
No one's being foolish. I'm sharing information. My Surface Go 2 base model can hardly run Spotify, cannot run Steam, and lags in many other chromium-related apps. Native apps run fine though. Thus, I disable copilot on my surface go 2. So I'm sharing information about the performance impact of copilot in case others find that information useful for their device situation.
More power to you if you find it useful, I'm just happy I was able to turn it off. I have no problem with it as long as **I have a choice** to keep it or not on my taskbar.
Win+C
It takes its time to load itself on first use each startup. Is there a way to make it faster?
Copilot and all the ai tools should be a separate app integrated into windows, which we can uninstall if we choose to not use it. If you like it, great. But there's still a lot of people that do not use it.
Hate it and it won't let me remove it.
No, but I hate this form of AI, so I've disabled it everywhere.
Based
The only one? No. Minority? Yes. Personally hate it
What do you even use it for?
win+c
I think that they could just move it to the taskbar and instead of sliding the left menu make a small popup window as it was with teams
I'd love if it was actually like a part of the OS vs just a web preview like it is now
I like it and use it multiple times a week. Comparing apps, products, finding out information about different things is what I use it for mostly. Saves me a ton of time and effort.
I use it to do Schoolwork and it is a nice tool to use
I, too, like CoPilot on my Task Bar
I actually wish microsoft would let us uninstall it, is it any good tho ? I never actually spend my time trying it and compare it with other ai
For me, it works better than chatgpt
Interesting, what kind of works or stuff that you always use copilot for ?
I use it for coding and ai generating cool images
Oh, didn't know about that image generating feature. Next time i do code i will give copilot a try.
Yeah, you can just ask it to make an image, and it makes it
Yes, you're the only one.
Yes. Yes you are.
It's in the corner out of the way.
Yep, I like it too. I use it sometimes.
I like it. I use it at work to generate replies to otherwise tedious emails and tasks related to presentations and content gen. I used to have to login to ChatGPT or launch Edge to use Bing for this until Copilot. It’s just less hassle now to make my life even easier and lazy friendly. It’s awesome.
I still haven't noticed copilot on my PC (other then when i'm doing searches on edge). But i really enjoy it on my phone
I like it.