While it's hard to make Microsoft Copilot and other AI stuff in Windows go away completely, there are some ways to make it less annoying.
These steps work for me, but may require some tweaking.
(Also, this assumes you're using Windows Pro or up - Windows Home does not support editing group policies.)
User policies:
Navigate to Policies/Administrative Templates/Windows Components
Under Windows AI:
Set "Disable Click to Do" to Enabled
Set "Turn off saving snapshots for use with Recall" to Enabled
Under Windows Copilot:
Set "Turn off Windows Copilot" to Enabled
Computer policies:
Under Policies/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Windows AI:
Set "Allow export of Recall and snapshot information" to Disabled
Set "Allow Recall to be enabled" to Disabled
Set "Disable Click to Do" to Enabled
Set "Disable Settings agentic search experience" to Enabled
Services:
I've seen WSAIFabricSvc consuming high amounts of CPU and RAM in some newer computers, so disable it.
MS Learn question about WSAIFabricSVC
Unrelated Windows 11 tweak:
In order to restore the full right click menu, create the following registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32
24 March 2026