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Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings

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Microsoft says the new AI agents can find and change settings for users when given a natural language command.

Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings

"We set out to solve one of the most common frustrations we hear — finding and changing settings on your PC — using the power of AI agents," Navjot Virk, corporate vice president of Windows Experiences at Microsoft, said in a blog post on Tuesday. "An agent uses on-device AI to understand your intent and with your permission, automate and execute tasks."

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  • Hey Windows, set my taskbar to run vertically along the left side of my screen. 🖕

    • Can’t you just drag it? That worked the last time I used a Windows computer

      • Windows 11 ended support for vertical taskbars and the default setting is along the bottom with the tasks centered. You can change the “taskbar alignment” setting to “left” but that just aligns the tasks to the left side of the bar. There apparently was a registry hack that allowed you to move the taskbar, but that got patched out by the time my work updated my workstation

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