Pakua SysManager 1.136.166

[1.136.166] - 2026-11-10
On Windows 11 version 24H2 and later, Privacy & Telemetry no longer offers a Windows Copilot switch that Windows
ignores there, and on earlier Windows the switch says what it turns off and what it does not.
Fixed
- The Windows Copilot switch in Features writes one policy, TurnOffWindowsCopilot, which turns off the Windows Copilot
pane and its taskbar button. Windows 11 version 24H2 replaced the pane with the Windows Copilot app, which ignores
the policy, and Microsoft now lists the policy as deprecated, so from 24H2 on the switch read back as on after Apply,
the tab counted it among the protections that are active, and the app kept working. It has been that way there
since the switch was added in 1.5.0. On those versions the switch is now listed only while it is on, so it can be
turned off to clear the policy, says it has no effect on this PC, and is not counted as a protection.
Changed
- Before 24H2 the switch is "Disable Windows Copilot", and its description says what the policy does: it turns off the
pane and its taskbar button where Windows has them and keeps an upgrade from adding the Windows Copilot app, but it
does not affect the app once installed, which Preinstalled Apps can remove.
- A profile imported on 24H2 or later drops its choice for that switch while the switch is off there, as it drops a
switch the version does not know, and the log says the choice is not listed on this PC.
Verify the download
Get-FileHash .\SysManager-v1.136.166.exe -Algorithm SHA256
Expected SHA256: 96A79DFE23AD8B8D8FCE9DAA9B625D0541855F7245B9D83F2BB7695F0E9D3696
This build is not code-signed, so Windows will warn on first launch. That is
expected for a small independent app: see what the warning says and what to
click.
Code signing is planned through the SignPath Foundation,
which provides free certificates to open-source projects, with signing performed by
SignPath.io. Until then, the SHA256 above and the build
attestation below are what establish that a download is the genuine build.
Code signing policy
This release is not code-signed. The team roles, release-approval process and
privacy policy required by the SignPath Foundation programme
are documented in advance under Code signing
policy. That
documentation is a prerequisite for applying, not evidence of a certificate. The
attribution line naming SignPath as the signing provider will appear here once a
certificate is actually issued.
This program will not transfer any information to other networked systems unless
specifically requested by the user or the person installing or operating it. Two checks
run on their own when SysManager starts: the version check against the GitHub Releases
API, at most once a day, and the Dashboard's app-updates alert, which asks winget. The
About tab can switch off either. Everything else that uses the network runs only when you
use it. Full
privacy policy.
Verify where this binary came from
This exe was built by GitHub Actions from this public source, and the build is
recorded in the Sigstore public transparency log. With the
GitHub CLI:
gh attestation verify .\SysManager-v1.136.166.exe --repo laurentiu021/SystemManager
That proves which commit and workflow produced this exact binary, something the
SHA256 file cannot show, since it is published alongside the exe it describes.
Each release also ships SysManager-v1.136.166.sbom.json, a CycloneDX inventory of
every dependency resolved for this build, and THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt, the
licenses and notices of the open-source components the exe carries, which About
also opens from the exe itself.