This not only gets your machine to start up faster, but it reserves your PC’s memory for the stuff you really want to use. It’s really simple to simply stop Teams - or any other app that you don’t need - from loading when your machine starts up. And, if you really want to go the whole hog, you can uninstall it. You can remove the Chat icon from the Taskbar. You can stop Teams from automatically loading every time you start your machine. There are several things you can do if you find the push to Teams irritating. So what if you’re not interested in using Microsoft Teams? After that, when you click on the Chat icon, you’ll be able to chat with friends, family, and colleagues using a pop-up box. If you’re already using Teams, or you’re okay with switching to it, you’re fine. If you float your cursor across the icon, which looks like a camera inside of a cartoon speech balloon, it will say “Chat.” Click on it, and you’ll be invited to “Meet and chat with friends and family” using Microsoft Teams. When you first install Windows 11, you will probably see a new icon on your Taskbar - or, at least, it will be new if you haven’t been using Microsoft’s Teams collaboration app lately.

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