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Clippy's revenge: assistant comes back to purge Windows 11 of bloatware, ads and annoyances


Open-source utility Winpilot uses the long-defunct Office assistant.

(Image credit: Tom's Hardware)If you perform an action, such as removing a piece of bloatware, the status and confirmation will appear in place of Clippy's comment at the bottom of the speech bubble. If you close the speech bubble, you might notice a text box that says "Ask the savvy Clippy," which I thought would invoke a natural-language search where the assistant could help me use Winpilot. Unlike Winpilot, this FireCube app allows you to put Clippy directly on the Windows 11 desktop and connect it to GPT 3.5 (with an API key) so you can use it as a true AI chatbot.

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