From 089c5f8b5075febf273aa70ff7f8a1f23c43e490 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: moooyo <42196638+moooyo@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2026 10:50:05 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] refactor(imageresizer): disable AI feature and cache
 functionality (#44759)

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Co-authored-by: Yu Leng <yuleng@microsoft.com>
---
 src/modules/imageresizer/ui/App.xaml.cs       | 27 +---------
 .../ui/Services/AiAvailabilityCacheService.cs | 53 ++-----------------
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 74 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/modules/imageresizer/ui/App.xaml.cs b/src/modules/imageresizer/ui/App.xaml.cs
index 06c8eebad5..9977a8a474 100644
--- a/src/modules/imageresizer/ui/App.xaml.cs
+++ b/src/modules/imageresizer/ui/App.xaml.cs
@@ -188,31 +188,8 @@ namespace ImageResizer
         /// </summary>
         private static AiAvailabilityState CheckAiAvailability()
         {
-            try
-            {
-                // Check Windows AI service model ready state
-                // it's so slow, why?
-                var readyState = Services.WinAiSuperResolutionService.GetModelReadyState();
-
-                // Map AI service state to our availability state
-                switch (readyState)
-                {
-                    case Microsoft.Windows.AI.AIFeatureReadyState.Ready:
-                        return AiAvailabilityState.Ready;
-
-                    case Microsoft.Windows.AI.AIFeatureReadyState.NotReady:
-                        return AiAvailabilityState.ModelNotReady;
-
-                    case Microsoft.Windows.AI.AIFeatureReadyState.DisabledByUser:
-                    case Microsoft.Windows.AI.AIFeatureReadyState.NotSupportedOnCurrentSystem:
-                    default:
-                        return AiAvailabilityState.NotSupported;
-                }
-            }
-            catch (Exception)
-            {
-                return AiAvailabilityState.NotSupported;
-            }
+            // AI feature disabled - always return NotSupported
+            return AiAvailabilityState.NotSupported;
         }
 
         /// <summary>
diff --git a/src/modules/imageresizer/ui/Services/AiAvailabilityCacheService.cs b/src/modules/imageresizer/ui/Services/AiAvailabilityCacheService.cs
index d1a235297e..474d1c398e 100644
--- a/src/modules/imageresizer/ui/Services/AiAvailabilityCacheService.cs
+++ b/src/modules/imageresizer/ui/Services/AiAvailabilityCacheService.cs
@@ -39,29 +39,8 @@ namespace ImageResizer.Services
         /// </summary>
         public static AiAvailabilityState? LoadCache()
         {
-            try
-            {
-                if (!File.Exists(CachePath))
-                {
-                    return null;
-                }
-
-                var json = File.ReadAllText(CachePath);
-                var cache = JsonSerializer.Deserialize<AiCapabilityCache>(json);
-
-                if (!IsCacheValid(cache))
-                {
-                    return null;
-                }
-
-                return (AiAvailabilityState)cache.State;
-            }
-            catch (Exception ex)
-            {
-                // Read failure (file locked, corrupted JSON, etc.) - return null and use fallback
-                Logger.LogError($"Failed to load AI cache: {ex.Message}");
-                return null;
-            }
+            // Cache disabled - always return null to use default value
+            return null;
         }
 
         /// <summary>
@@ -70,32 +49,8 @@ namespace ImageResizer.Services
         /// </summary>
         public static void SaveCache(AiAvailabilityState state)
         {
-            try
-            {
-                var cache = new AiCapabilityCache
-                {
-                    Version = CacheVersion,
-                    State = (int)state,
-                    WindowsBuild = Environment.OSVersion.Version.ToString(),
-                    Architecture = RuntimeInformation.ProcessArchitecture.ToString(),
-                    Timestamp = DateTime.UtcNow.ToString("o"),
-                };
-
-                var dir = Path.GetDirectoryName(CachePath);
-                if (!Directory.Exists(dir))
-                {
-                    Directory.CreateDirectory(dir);
-                }
-
-                var json = JsonSerializer.Serialize(cache, SerializerOptions);
-                File.WriteAllText(CachePath, json);
-
-                Logger.LogInfo($"AI cache saved: {state}");
-            }
-            catch (Exception ex)
-            {
-                Logger.LogError($"Failed to save AI cache: {ex.Message}");
-            }
+            // Cache disabled - do not save anything
+            return;
         }
 
         /// <summary>