[NFBCS] O.T.: Permanently Disable Artificial Intelligence Process on Windows 10

[Doug Lee]

Sadly I don't, at least yet, have an answer to your question; but I'm writing for two reasons: First, to
express delight at the way you signed your message, since as of the announcements of Recall AI, I have begun
to feel indignation at the possibility of so many of my resources being forceably dedicated to Microsoft
aims rather than my own. And second, to add my name to the probably rapidly growing list of people who will
want to know how to prevent things like this from happening. I did not pay for a large SSD, which fails
faster the more it is used, to host Microsoft AI experiments that consume many gigs of data that continue
changing. I paid for a large SSD so that I could store my own stuff. :)

On Sat, Jun 01, 2024 at 10:45:39AM -0700, NFBCS mailing list wrote:
               I know that this is not really related to accessibility,
   but does anyone know how to permanently disable the artificial
   intelligence process on Windows 10 64 bit? Whenever it runs, it
   prevents Microsoft Outlook from closing properly, so both processes are
   still running in the background, and Outlook will not open again—even
   though it is not on the taskbar; the only way to fix it is to use the
   task manager to kill both processes. I have used Cygwin to chmod 000
   (block all access) to ai.exe, but, no matter how many times that I do
   that, Microsoft somehow manages to restore the permissions and run that
   process.


   Nicole who is fighting with Microsoft for control of her laptop



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