Timeline for Can I completely disable Cortana on Windows 10?
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| Aug 29, 2017 at 15:41 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| S May 9, 2017 at 3:29 | history | suggested | Stevoisiak | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Hyperlink Werner's answer
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| May 9, 2017 at 3:12 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Feb 11, 2017 at 23:32 | comment | added | Birkensocks | Zombie hunter! Gotta be pretty quick on the draw to kill the Cortana daemon. | |
| Jan 22, 2017 at 20:20 | comment | added | DeerSpotter | this is interesting, i found that the following are using cortana: i.gyazo.com/02c1aac208c58b22ee76704364fa6448.png and when i went to kill processes this is what happened: i.gyazo.com/df91dcd03bad80eafd89a14b7fc7d6d3.png | |
| Jan 14, 2016 at 21:33 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | @MC10 Yes, I modified the properties of my PowerShell shortcut (among others) to always prompt for elevation. | |
| Jan 14, 2016 at 21:22 | comment | added | MC10 | @ToddWilcox Did you run an elevated PowerShell (Run as administrator)? | |
| Jan 14, 2016 at 16:03 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | Note: WernerCD's method just failed to work for me. PowerShell gave an error that Cortana can not be uninstalled because it is part of the operating system. The method in this answer did work for me. Thanks! | |
| Oct 2, 2015 at 18:41 | comment | added | Marcel | I could not rename the folder because windows kept rebooting the cortana process every time I stopped it. Solution? Boot using linux mint (primary os) and rename the folder. Take that microsoft and your futile attempts to sway me! | |
| Aug 20, 2015 at 14:11 | audit | First posts | |||
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| S Aug 12, 2015 at 19:12 | history | edited | MC10 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S Aug 12, 2015 at 19:12 | history | suggested | Matt Parker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
I just joined and can't comment without 50 points and I cant send direct messages to OP. I need to point out a critical consequence of disabling Cortana this way. It also disables Windows Search after reboot.
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| Aug 12, 2015 at 18:37 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Aug 3, 2015 at 23:42 | history | edited | MC10 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Directing to better answer
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| Aug 3, 2015 at 11:52 | comment | added | MC10 | Yeah, sounds good. I will definitely do that in the future. | |
| Aug 3, 2015 at 11:23 | comment | added | T.J. Crowder | Which is great! And +1 on that answer. Nice one improving it even further over the original. But it doesn't change the fact that this question is a dupe and should have been closed as one. If you really wanted to also post an answer, I'd make it a CW linking to the (updated) answer and vote-to-close. | |
| Aug 3, 2015 at 11:21 | comment | added | MC10 | @T.J.Crowder Well actually I edited that answer after posting this one. My old answer on that question was a lot simpler and you can see the Original Answer. | |
| Aug 3, 2015 at 10:02 | comment | added | T.J. Crowder | Rather than posting a duplicate of your answer from July, you should simply vote to close as duplicate. | |
| Aug 3, 2015 at 5:28 | comment | added | Mukul Kumar | I would have wrote same answer...b'cuz I also use this method..... | |
| Aug 3, 2015 at 1:55 | comment | added | phyrfox | Technically this works, but Windows Automatic Repair will fix it if you ever have a bad boot, and Windows Update might restore Cortana. I don't suggest modifying system files just to remove a feature. It may also have unintended side effects, such as other programs that depend on Cortana code to provide some functionality (I'm not aware of any such dependency, but I wouldn't risk it). | |
| Aug 2, 2015 at 20:37 | comment | added | ArtOfCode | Thanks, I've already done that though. | |
| Aug 2, 2015 at 20:34 | comment | added | MC10 | If you would like to hide the search bar, see my answer here: superuser.com/questions/947156/disable-cortana-completely/… I have updated it with the method I found during the creation of this answer so scroll down to Original Answer. | |
| Aug 2, 2015 at 20:33 | vote | accept | ArtOfCode | ||
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| Aug 2, 2015 at 20:32 | comment | added | ArtOfCode | Works a charm, and I've also used it to disable a number of other annoying processes. Thanks! | |
| Aug 2, 2015 at 20:28 | history | answered | MC10 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
