Windows 11 AI now tells you what’s slowing down your PC, while Copilot itself uses 1 GB of RAM doing nothing.
The feature is called PC Insights, and it lets Copilot read system info like CPU usage, RAM usage, GPU usage, storage space, battery health, connected USB devices, network state, BIOS version, antivirus status, and more, with your permission.
In theory, this is useful, as you can ask: “What’s my current CPU usage?” “Do I have enough space for a 100GB game?” “What graphics card do I have?”
And all beginner-friendly questions to avoid digging through Task Manager, Settings, and File Explorer.
However, the current Copilot app is a full web app, ships with its own private copy of Microsoft Edge, shows up as a browser in Task Manager, and used nearly 1GB of RAM in my testing while doing almost nothing.
If Microsoft wants Copilot to diagnose Windows performance, it should first move Copilot, Teams, and other apps to Windows 11's WinUI native framework.
Enough of the web slop!