cortana Can I disable Cortana?

[uzivkovic97]

Hello guys,

As the title says, can I actually disable Cortana? 

[bo4koxex]

Yes you can by editing the registry, there is a tutorial https://www.pcworld.com/article/2949759/windows/killing-cortana-how-to-disable-windows-10s-info-hungry-digital-assistant.html

[uzivkovic97]

10 minutes ago, bo4koxex said:

Yes you can by editing the registry, there is a tutorial https://www.pcworld.com/article/2949759/windows/killing-cortana-how-to-disable-windows-10s-info-hungry-digital-assistant.html

I just tried that, now in Task Manager i have even more ''Cortana'' services.

 

[bo4koxex]

6 minutes ago, uzivkovic97 said:

I just tried that, now in Task Manager i have even more ''Cortana'' services.

 

That's odd, Did you tried restarting your pc after editing the registry?

[uzivkovic97]

2 minutes ago, bo4koxex said:

That's odd, Did you tried restarting your pc after editing the registry?

Yes. I mean, Cortana doesn't work anymore when i search something, but I see it in processes and it takes like 100mb of RAM.

[bo4koxex]

Just now, uzivkovic97 said:

Yes. I mean, Cortana doesn't work anymore when i search something, but I see it in processes and it takes like 100mb of RAM.

I am pretty sure that the SearchUI is running not Cortana. And you dont need to disable that. 100mb of ram is not that much 

[IgorM]

14 minutes ago, uzivkovic97 said:

I just tried that, now in Task Manager i have even more ''Cortana'' services.

 

Same thing here. Did this a long time ago but cortana is still alive

[WereCatf]

There is a much easier way of disabling Cortana, namely OOSU10 Do note that it allows you to disable quite a lot of things, some of them rather important, so don't touch anything you don't know what it does.

[uzivkovic97]

@bo4koxex, it ususally uses arround 100mb, even before that. Its not too much, i just got an idea to try to turn off all unnecessary services.

[paddy-stone]

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Cortana isn’t totally dead, though. You’ll still see the process lurking in Task Manager if you pay attention. Kill it and it’ll immediately spring back to life. Your search queries nevertheless stay strictly local.

 

[Bananasplit_00]

easy solution: live somewhere she dosent work to begin with, like Sweden

[Princess Luna]

Yes it is Very easy I have killed Cortana for good in my system since I have Classic Shell to revive the old Windows Search Bar.

 

All you have to do is open task manager find Cortana process right click, select "Open File Location" it'll redirect you to it's native folder, now this is the only tricky part you have to kill the process, this gives you about 2 to 3 seconds it is dead before Windows restarts it, within these few seconds of time you have to rename the folder, I usually just add a . at the end of it so if I ever decide to re-enable Cortana I can just remove the .

 

Cortana can not be deleted but this will fool Windows as it will attempt to start Cortana process again but it can no longer find its native directory since you changed it meaning it'll be fully disabled.