Upgrading to Windows 11: Co-Pilot and Settings

Gig Performer on Windows
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In December I’m planning my upgrade to Gig Performer 5 and Windows 11. These Windows upgrades always give me apprehension.

The biggest concern is AI and Co-Pilot. This is a laptop for gigs and I’d rather not have Co-Pilot interfering or running in the background. Is it possible to turn it off? Does it interfere with GP or audio/midi performance?

Upgrading from Windows 10: will I have to reapply all the Windows tweaks for maximizing performance for audio processing?

Semi related: every time an NVIDIA driver update comes through it reenables its audio driver and the Intel audio driver and I have to re-disable those devices in Device Manager. I hear Windows is getting rid of Control Panel and Device Manager.

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Link: How to disable Copilot in Windows 11 | Tom's Guide

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Most likely, yes. All of them.

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Thanks. Glad it can be disabled in the group policy editor. I was hoping my Windows 10 optimizations would be retained but I’ll plan on having to reapply them again.

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Why upgrade? Unless it’s your only computer and unless there is a real need for the features in Windows 11 (whatever they may be), why not stay where you are, at least for live performance needs?

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Control panel: yes. Everything is being migrated to the Settings app, (although it’s still lacking the bridging functions and other networking features)

Device Manager: do you have a link for that? I didn’t notice that it would be phased out…

Btw: almost everything is also available using powershell. In the future the optimization guide could be squashed to one big powershell script (if someone could find the time :thinking:). (Not sure if that’s desirable.)

About copilot: for the local copilot an npu is needed, as far as I know.

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The pleasure of beating up Windows slowly is priceless! :sunglasses:

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Not true. Right-click on the Windows icon lower-left. Select “Search”. Start typing “Control Panel”. When it’s found, click on it to run. There are still some things that you can do via the Control Panel that I haven’t figured out how to do from Settings.

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Keyboard is ‘being’, so the migration is still in progress (nearly 10 years now)

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Since Windows 8 (or whenever the Metro interface came in), I have used the “Start” apps from Stardock. Currently I am using Start 11. This gives a Win 7 start menu, and Control Panel is easily found the old way by clicking there. I am using Win 11 for my Gig Performer installation and have had no problems at all.

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Debating about it. Laptop is only connected to the internet to get plugin updates but I schedule downtime to apply Windows security and OS updates.

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Be careful :slight_smile: → [blog] Be careful with updates

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yeah this would be amazing actually

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You can already find various scripts on the Internet but I haven’t used them.