How do I access Copilot in Windows?

Windows AI & Assistants Widgets

AI sidebar assistants, prompt helpers, Copilot shortcuts, and desktop LLM tools.

Curated Discoveries1 Widget

AI widgets integrate conversational assistants directly into your desktop or browser sidebar for instant answers and summarization.

Allows rapid drafting, code explanation, and document analysis without leaving your active window.

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Edge Sidebar

9.3/10

Built-in AI assistant sidebar in Microsoft Edge for page summarization, drafting, and code analysis.

FreeEasy InstallMedium RAM

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Zero-Install Web Alternatives

Modern

Estimate token counts and API costs for OpenAI (GPT-4o, GPT-4, GPT-3.5), Claude 3.5, and Gemini LLM prompts and context windows.

HTML/CSS/JS Static Utility

Modern

Clean, format, structure, and enhance raw AI prompts with role instructions, constraints, context delimiters, and output formatting schemas.

HTML/CSS/JSStatic Utility

Essential

HTML5 / React / TypeScriptStatic Utility

Modern

HTML5 / React / TypeScriptStatic Utility

Press Win + C or click the Copilot button on the taskbar (or Edge sidebar) to launch the AI assistant.