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Windows 11 Canary 26058 Installed Successfully but....
Copilot is no longer available on the Taskbar and does not start with Win C. Windows Hello is working Great! Copilot is still showing in Apps though not working except on Windows Edge. Strange. Wa...
Hate to jump on with a "me too" reply, but I can confirm this is happening to me in the dev channel build as well. I can see a Copilot icon in the search bar, but when I click on it, it takes me to the normal search, and clicking on Copilot from there opens the web version in Edge.
gortbrown Fixed the issue by using regedit and tweaking the registry. Everything works fine now.
Go here for instructions: How to enable new Copilot AI on Windows 11 - Pureinfotech.
Had to add a Keyword Windows Copilot and Enter the Dword TurnOffWindowsCopilot. Once that was done i Clicked the Dword and set it to 0.
Alabamatom1963Sweet, thank you! Changing both of these in regedit worked for me! I did also have to change one more thing. I had to go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsCopilot, and change the dword AllowCopilotRuntime to 1 to get it to work. For some reason it sometimes switches back to 0, but it will still work for a while.
