[daniel1212]

Presently I do get Cortana to temporarily go away, using task manager to continually kill it until it quits raising its head again.

Why not just get Ultimate Windows Tweaker 4 and disable it (among other things)?

[Wuli]

Thanks. I did not know about Ultimate Windows Tweaker 4. Maybe as I searched about the Cortana problem, Google & Microsoft had an arrangement to push way down in the Google search results any url with content pointing to that tool LOL.