To put Copilot back on the Taskbar, click the Start button and look for Copilot in the Start menu or All screen. Right-click its shortcut, move to the More menu, and click Pin to Taskbar. You can then launch and use Copilot as you normally would.

A recent Windows update can actually remove Microsoft's Copilot assistant from the OS. As the company promotes generative AI to the public, Redmond accidentally introduced a software bug last week that can delete the Copilot program from PCs running Windows 10 or 11.

If you woke up to a Windows PC suddenly without Microsoft's Copilot app installed, you didn't dream the last few years of AI hype, Microsoft just made a mistake. The latest monthly Windows 11 update that rolled out on March 11 "unintentionally uninstalled and unpinned" the AI assistant,