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Forty Percent of CPU usage JUST for Cortana?!
Cortana...that’s funny
Cortana, listen closely. Everything I say is a lie.
I am lying.
I can’t stand any speech processing. I will not talk to machines.
I need advice, I need to buy a new computer for work. Very hesitant to by Winblows10.But I feel I have no choice. Apple?
I need MS Word, to make things easier. Does Apple have that, or can I get it? Or will it work? Thanks!
Cortana? What’s that?
I am actually considering paying to upgrade to Win 10 Professsional. It has the means within it to put Cortana to bed and leave it there.
Presently I do get Cortana to temporarily go away, using task manager to continually kill it until it quits raising its head again. I will get relief for a while, but if my Windows session lasts long enough -like some hours - I will check task manager and Cortana will be live in the background again.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/3109900/you-can-remove-cortana-from-windows-10-but-its-tricky.html
The gpedit function is not available in regular Win 10. I did what was described as work around by downloading the Group Policy program and its folders, from MS, inspite of my system not being in a level higher than Win 10 Home. It did install a gpedit dll, but not the gpedit.msc; and gpedit as a command did not function in any way. It was as if I had downloaded nothing new into the Windows/System and Wondows/System32 folders.
I might pay for the Win 10 Pro upgrade and hope with it I can finally kill Cortana, or at least put to sleep for good.
The problem that I had with this “update” is that it corrupted my system startup files when I tried to get rid of it using the lazy man’s way out with system restore. After a heck of a lot of messing around with the tools on the recovery media and using one command after another in Dism.exe in PowerShell I think that I finally have things back to normal.
I still don’t trust sleep mode after the laptop pretty much baked itself while running the battery down after being in its bag for only about an hour. The thing was so hot that I was surprised that it still booted up. I wouldn’t be a bit surprised now if some surface mounted components started coming loose on the motherboard.
I haven’t noticed any Cortana a related CPU issues, the update replaced drivers that I downloaded from HP, and AMD with generic Microsoft versions that I suppose were meant to be more compatible with Windows 10. This “minor” update is a serious F-up. Excuse my language after wasting a lot of time on this.
I was wondering why my laptop started slowing down so aggressively recently. Now I shall study the issue when I get home.
And I really need to shut down Cortana. I do not like it, subconsciously.
Thanks for the update. Spreading the word.
I no longer use any Windows OS on the desktop or laptop.
Not since they started fouling Windows 7 with “security updates” that weren’t for security, but to modify it in preparation for Win 10 upgrade.