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# AI components
**AI components** removes the Copilot and AI Hub apps and turns off Windows AI features in the deployed Windows. Two of its eight actions remove an app. The other six set a policy or a service start type and remove nothing.
Each action has its own switch. Turning the page on turns on all eight.
## Choose the actions
1. Open **Customization > AI components**.
2. Turn the switch at the top right to **Enabled**. Foundry OSD turns on all eight actions.
3. Turn off the actions you do not want. Turning off the last one switches the whole page to **Disabled**.
4. Create or update the deployment media.
| Action | What it does to the deployed Windows | Applied |
| ---------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Remove Microsoft Copilot** | Removes the Copilot app, turns off Windows Copilot by policy and hides the Copilot taskbar button for new users. | Policy in Windows PE, app at the first start of Windows |
| **Remove Copilot+ AI Hub** | Removes the Windows AI Hub app when the image contains it. | First start of Windows |
| **Disable Windows Recall by policy** | Sets policies that prevent Recall from being turned on and from saving snapshots. | Windows PE |
| **Disable Click to Do** | Sets the policy that turns off Click to Do. | Windows PE |
| **Prevent Windows AI service autostart** | Sets the `WSAIFabricSvc` service to manual start instead of automatic start. | Windows PE |
| **Disable Microsoft Edge AI features** | Sets eight Microsoft Edge policies that turn off Copilot, the sidebar, compose and AI search features. | Windows PE |
| **Disable Paint AI features** | Sets five Paint policies that turn off Cocreator, generative fill and erase, image creator and background removal. | Windows PE |
| **Disable Notepad AI features** | Sets the Notepad policy that turns off its AI features. | Windows PE |
## What happens on the device
* **Policies and the service setting** are written into the installed Windows in Windows PE, in the **Configure AI policies** step, after Windows is applied to the disk.
* **The two apps** are removed at the first start of Windows, before the first sign-in, even when the Post-installation page is off. See [When each customization is applied](/foundry-osd/customization.md#when-each-customization-is-applied). Foundry removes the provisioned package, as [AppX removals](/foundry-osd/customization/appx-removals.md) does. An app the image does not contain is skipped, and a failed removal is recorded as a warning without stopping the deployment.
* **A later policy wins.** A Group Policy or Intune setting applied after deployment replaces the policies Foundry wrote.
## Check the result
When a policy action is on, the **Configure AI policies** step of Foundry Deploy completes and the log contains "Offline AI policies configured." With only **Remove Copilot+ AI Hub** on, **Steps** has no **Configure AI policies** step, because that app is removed after the restart. After the restart, the Foundry Post-installation console lists the task `Remove AI components`, and the removal is recorded in:
```
C:\Windows\Temp\Foundry\Logs\PreOobe\appx-servicing.log
```
## Limits
* **No compatibility check.** The page does not tell you whether a Windows version or edition honours a policy. Foundry writes the policy in every case.
* **Recall.** **Disable Windows Recall by policy** leaves the Recall component in Windows. To add or remove the component, set **Recall** on [Optional features](/foundry-osd/customization/optional-features.md). The two settings are independent.
* **Paint and Notepad.** **Disable Paint AI features** and **Disable Notepad AI features** have no purpose when the same media removes Paint and Notepad through [AppX removals](/foundry-osd/customization/appx-removals.md).
* **Fixed list.** You cannot add an action. Use a script in [Post-installation](/foundry-osd/customization/post-installation.md) for anything else.
## Related
* [AppX removals](/foundry-osd/customization/appx-removals.md)
* [Optional features](/foundry-osd/customization/optional-features.md)
* [Review and deploy](/foundry-deploy/review-and-deploy.md)
* [After the restart troubleshooting](/troubleshooting/after-the-restart.md)
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