How to enable or disable the Copilot suggestions menu for Windows 11

  • To enable the Copilot menu on Windows 11, open

    Settings

    >

    Personalization

    >

    Copilot in Windows

    and turn on the

    “Show Copilot suggestions menu on copy”

    toggle switch.
  • To enable the Copilot suggestions menu, open

    Settings

    >

    Personalization

    >

    Copilot in Windows

    and turn off the Show Copilot menu option.
  • This feature requires build 22635.3430 or higher release from the Beta Channel.
  • You may also need to enable the feature using the ViveTool.

Starting on Windows 11 build 22635.3430 (KB5036992), Microsoft began the early rollout of the new

“Copilot suggestions menu on copy”

feature. In this guide, I will show you how to manage it on your computer.

It’s a new menu that suggests different actions depending on the content you copy to the clipboard. When the feature is enabled, and you copy some text or an image to the clipboard, the

Copilot

icon will change its appearance and animation, and a flyout menu will open from the System Tray in the Taskbar. When you hover over it, the menu will expand, revealing the description of each action, depending on the content in the clipboard.

If you copied some text, you will see the option to send it to Copilot directly, or you can choose to explain or summarize it.

On the other hand, if you copy an image, you can send it directly to the chatbot, create a similar image with AI, or analyze the image. (Microsoft is still testing this feature, and in my installation, the options for an image include sending it to Copilot, explaining it, and editing it.)

Although the new feature can help to lure users into using Copilot, I have already noticed that this flyout menu can be an annoying distraction for many people as it opens up on every copy action. If this is the same case for you,

Windows 11

is adding an option to turn off the menu completely.

In this

guide

, I will explain how you manage the suggestions menu for Copilot on Windows 11.

  • Turn on the Copilot suggestions menu on Windows 11

  • Turn off the Copilot suggestions menu on Windows 11

Turn on the Copilot suggestions menu on Windows 11

To enable the Copilot suggestions menu, use these steps:

Open

Start

on Windows 11.

Click on

Personalization

.

Click the

Copilot in Windows

page.

Turn

on

the “

Show Copilot suggestions menu on copy”

toggle switch.

Enable Show Copilot suggestions menu on copy

Once you complete the steps, when you copy some text or an image, Copilot will open a suggestion menu with different self-explanatory actions, including “Send to Copilot in Windows,” “Summarize,” and “Explain.”

When copying content to the clipboard, the Copilot icon will change appearance and play an animation indicating that it can help with different actions. You will also see a flyout menu that will expand, revealing the name of each action as you hover over the menu.

Enable the feature through ViveTool

If the feature isn’t available during your installation, you may still be able to enable it on Windows 11 using

ViveTool

(via

@PhantomOfEarth

).

At the time of this writing, the Copilot suggestions menu is gradually rolling out on

Windows 11 build 22635.3430 (KB5036992)

, meaning that you will need a computer

enrolled in the Beta Channel


with the latest preview to access the feature.

To enable the new Copilot action menu, use these steps:

Open

GitHub

website

.

Download the

ViveTool-vx.x.x.zip

file to enable the new Copilot menu.

Double-click the zip folder to open it with File Explorer.

Click the

Extract all

button.

Extract ViveTool zip file

Click the

Extract

button.

Copy the path to the folder.

Open

Start

.

Search for

Command Prompt

, right-click the top result, and select the

Run as administrator

option.

Type the following command to navigate to the ViveTool folder and press

Enter

:

In the command, remember to change the path to the folder with your path.

Type the following command to enable the new Copilot suggestions menu and press

Enter

:

Restart the computer.

After you complete the steps, the option to enable the menu with action suggestions will appear on

Settings

>

Personalization

>

Copilot in Windows

. You can now use the previous steps to turn on the feature.

Turn off the Copilot suggestions menu on Windows 11

To disable the Copilot menu that appears in the Taskbar, use these steps:

Open

Start

.

Click on

Personalization

.

Click the

Copilot in Windows

page.

Turn

off

the

“Show Copilot suggestions menu on copy”

toggle switch.

Disable Show Copilot suggestions menu on copy

After you complete the steps, the Copilot menu with suggestions will no longer appear in the Taskbar when copying text or images to the clipboard.


Are you turning this feature on or off on your computer?

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