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My problem has been that Copilot doesn't know Occam's Razor. Copilot knows everything and it insists on giving me the most complicated answers to questions. I recently had a problem running a personal Windows EXE from Task Scheduler. Device Guard blocked the program. As it happens, disabling Device Guard is really hard and not recommended. But moving the EXE to be under Program Files solved the issue, without needing to digitally sign my EXE. Moving the EXE to a different folder was really easy, but Copilot didn't suggest it at first.

I led Copilot down the wrong path because I asked Copilot how to stop Device Guard from blocking my EXE, and for some reason, Copilot decided that the best answer was to disable Device Guard. I should have asked what simple changes I could make to allow my EXE to run from Task Scheduler. There won't always be a simple solution, but Copilot will never tell me if I don't ask.