I have never used Cortana. In all new Windows Ten installations I remove it from the taskbar immediately.
same here!
Same here. The only times I talk to my computer is when I'm threatening to throw it out the freakin' window.
I found a way to turn Cortana off (after the dumnba$$es at Microsoft removed the ability) by RENAMING the cortana file.
If you just use the Task Manager to kill cortana it comes right back on, because there is a second program running that checks to see if it is still running and restarts it if it’s not.
You cannot RENAME it while it is running, so you just prepare to rename it, kill it in the task manager, and then before it is restarted hit the enter key to complete the ‘rename’. I usually just append “REMOVED to the end of the name.
Then when it tries to restart the file, it’s not there- (It is, it just has a different name)
I was so happy I defeated that reloading piece of crap that I forgot to kill the other process too... but I’ll leave that as an exercise for the reader.
One side effect seems to be that the ‘search’ box doesn’t work anymore but F U Microsoft.