How to Uninstall Copilot on Windows 11, From One PC to a Fleet

Updated: October 2026

Someone asked for Copilot to be gone, and now you're looking at a laptop with four different things called Copilot. Only one of them is an app you should uninstall, and removing the wrong one takes the Microsoft 365 launcher with it. Here's how to uninstall Copilot on Windows 11 on one PC, keep it off a whole fleet, and leave the parts your users still need.

Four Things Called Copilot

The Copilot app. The standalone Microsoft Copilot app, package name Microsoft.Copilot. It's the consumer version, and Microsoft's documentation says it doesn't support Microsoft Entra sign-in: work accounts get redirected to Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat in the browser. This is the one people mean when they ask to uninstall Copilot.

The Microsoft 365 Copilot app. This is the Microsoft 365 app, the Office launcher, under a newer name. It's where licensed users reach Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat with their work account. Leave it installed.

The Copilot key. The dedicated key on newer keyboards. You can't uninstall hardware, but you can change what it opens.

Copilot in Edge. The Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat icon in the Edge for Business toolbar. It's controlled by an Edge policy, not by anything in Windows.

Copilot inside Word, Excel and Outlook is a fifth thing again. It's managed from Microsoft 365, not Windows, so it's outside this guide.

How to Uninstall Copilot on One PC

Open Settings, then Apps, then Installed apps. Find Copilot, click the three dots and choose Uninstall. Check the publisher and the name before you click: the Microsoft 365 Copilot app sits in the same list.

From PowerShell, Microsoft documents the same removal for the signed-in user:

powershell
$packageFullName = Get-AppxPackage -Name "Microsoft.Copilot" | Select-Object -ExpandProperty PackageFullName
Remove-AppxPackage -Package $packageFullName

That removes the app for one user on one machine. It doesn't stop it coming back, and it doesn't touch anyone else who signs in to that PC.

This walkthrough from Britec09 covers the Settings route, a PowerShell script and the newer removal policy, if you'd rather watch it first.

Remove It for Every User on the Machine

On a shared PC, add -AllUsers. Run an elevated session and use Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers -Name "Microsoft.Copilot" | Remove-AppxPackage -AllUsers. That clears the app from every profile that has it.

New profiles are a separate question. If the app is staged in your image, check with Get-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online and remove it with Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage so the next new hire never gets it. Our list of PowerShell commands has more of these one-liners.

Scripts remove what's there today. They don't stop an update or a user from installing it again tomorrow, which is where policy comes in.

Block Copilot Across a Fleet

AppLocker is the method Microsoft recommends. Create a packaged app rule that denies publisher CN=MICROSOFT CORPORATION, O=MICROSOFT CORPORATION, L=REDMOND, S=WASHINGTON, C=US, package name MICROSOFT.COPILOT, any version. The rule blocks both installing and launching the app, which a script can't do. Deploy it through Group Policy or Intune, and run it in audit mode on a pilot group first.

RemoveMicrosoftCopilotApp is newer and narrower. It's a WindowsAI policy for Windows 11 24H2 and later, set per user or per device at ./User/Vendor/MSFT/Policy/Config/WindowsAI/RemoveMicrosoftCopilotApp with a value of 1. Microsoft's CSP reference lists Enterprise, Education and IoT Enterprise, and marks Pro as unsupported. The policy uninstalls the app only when three things are all true: the Microsoft 365 Copilot app and the Copilot app are both installed, the user didn't install Copilot themselves, and nobody has opened it in the last 28 days. Users can reinstall it afterward.

RemoveDefaultMicrosoftStorePackages clears it from new builds. On Windows 11 25H2 Enterprise and Education, this policy removes built-in Store apps you pick from a list, and Copilot is on that list. We covered it in our guide to debloating Windows 11.

One setting you'll still see in older guides is TurnOffWindowsCopilot. Microsoft has deprecated it and says it isn't for the new Copilot experience, so it won't remove or block the app. This r/Intune thread from February 2026 starts with exactly that OMA-URI, and the replies sort out which setting does what.

Why the Copilot App Comes Back

Removal and prevention are different jobs. An admin in this r/sysadmin thread from May 2026 removed the standalone app across their fleet and watched it return. They traced the reinstall to MicrosoftEdgeUpdate.exe running on its normal schedule. Their workaround was an EdgeUpdate policy value for the app's ID, which they say is holding but which Microsoft doesn't document for Copilot.

The documented answer is the AppLocker rule, because it blocks the app whatever installs it. On Pro machines outside Intune, run the removal as a scheduled script and check the result after every feature update. OpenFrame runs scripts as bulk operations across devices, with an approval gate before anything changes.

The Copilot Key and the Edge Icon

Remap the key. The SetCopilotHardwareKey policy sets which app the Copilot key opens. The value is the target app's AUMID, it's a user-scope setting, and it works on Pro too, on Windows 11 22H2 with KB5044380 or later. In Group Policy it sits under User Configuration, Administrative Templates, Windows Components, Windows Copilot. Point it at the Microsoft 365 Copilot app and licensed users land in the version your tenant covers. Users can also change it themselves under Settings, Personalization, Text input, "Customize Copilot key on keyboard."

Hide the Edge button. The Edge policy Microsoft365CopilotChatIconEnabled controls the Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat icon in the Edge for Business toolbar. It needs Edge 139 or later and applies to Entra profiles. Set it to 0 under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge, or through the Edge settings in Intune.

What Breaks When You Remove Copilot the Wrong Way

Removing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app. Users lose the Microsoft 365 launcher and their route into licensed Copilot Chat. A name filter like *Copilot* in a script catches both apps, so match the exact package name.

AppLocker packaged app rules with no allow rule. Once a rule collection has any rule, AppLocker blocks everything in that collection that isn't explicitly allowed. Add the default rule that allows signed packaged apps before you add the Copilot deny rule, or Store apps across the fleet stop opening. AppLocker also needs the Application Identity service running to enforce anything.

Trusting the legacy policy. TurnOffWindowsCopilot can apply cleanly in Intune and still change nothing about the app. Check on a device that the package is gone or blocked, not that the profile applied.

If what the user wants is Copilot turned off rather than removed, that's a separate setting in each app and in Edge, and it's a different job from uninstalling. Our guide on how to turn off Copilot walks through each switch.

The order that works: uninstall the consumer app, keep the Microsoft 365 Copilot app, block the package with AppLocker, and point the Copilot key at the app your licenses cover. Then check after each feature update that it stayed that way.

For removing the rest of the built-in apps the same way, the Windows 11 debloat guide is the next read.