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10 questions linked to/from How to reinstall Cortana?
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How can I install Cortana on Windows 10 again? [duplicate]
I uninstalled Cortana because I found it was an annoying feature that bothered me more than it helped me. After uninstalling it though I realized that some other windows features such as the search ...
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Windows 10 Start Menu Search Broken after Cortana [duplicate]
I accidentally deleted Cortana (okay it wasn't an accident). By running
rm -rf /c/Windows/SystemApps/Microsoft.Windows.Cortana_cw5n1h2txyewy/*
in bash. Cortana was gone (yay!) but now I can't search ...
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Can't get Windows Search nor Cortana back [duplicate]
I followed this guide in order to remove Cortana:
https://winaero.com/blog/how-to-uninstall-and-remove-cortana-in-windows-10/
But now, when I open windows menu, the search doesn't work, nor can I ...
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Can I completely disable Cortana on Windows 10?
Windows 10 has Cortana, which I don't like. I disabled it as soon as I could. However, looking in Task Manager, the process for Cortana is still running, and can't be effectively terminated: ending ...
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How to disable internet search results in start menu post Creators Update?
It used to be possible to disable internet search results in start menu searches before the Windows 10 Creators Update, but I've just clean installed a new Windows 10 Pro image and that setting is ...
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How to access the Administrator Command Prompt in Windows 8?
When I access the Run dialog in Windows 8 and type cmd, it opens a command prompt but it doesn't have administrative privileges.
Looking for cmd at the default start screen does show a command prompt ...
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Replace cortana icon with search icon in Windows 10 v1607
I had the previous version of Windows 10 with Cortana disabled. Therefore, in the taskbar I had a loupe icon instead of the Cortana one.
Then I installed the Anniversary Update (v1607). For some ...
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Packaging / Extracting Windows 10 Native Flash Player
To make a very long story short: Someone #@%@ed up and there are several Windows 10 assets in my environment that require Flash OCX repair (IT WASN'T ME!)
Simply re-registering the OCX modules doesn'...
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Messed up, need to reinstall Cortana and the Start-menu Search
I was a complete idiot and used this without realising it would remove the start-menu search. (I know there's a warning, I just saw the download link and clicked it without thinking. Very stupid of me....
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Cortana doesn't work after BSOD
I had a BSOD, so I forcibly shut down my PC. When I restarted it, it took some time to install a few Windows update; then the %temp% path was changed and I had to change it back.
Before I restarted ...
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