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How to Disable Cortana in Windows 10’s Anniversary Update


Tasgandy

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Received from "How to Geek" today and makes very interesting reading and provides solutions for those who wish to Disable Cortana. 

 

Microsoft doesn’t want you to disable Cortana. You used to be able to turn Cortana off in Windows 10, but Microsoft removed that easy toggle switch in the Anniversary Update. But you can still disable Cortana via a registry hack or group policy setting. This transforms the Cortana box into a “Search Windows” tool for local application and file searches.

Cortana has become increasingly restrictive since Windows 10’s release. It was previously updated to ignore your default web browser. Cortana now always launches the Microsoft Edge browser and only uses Bing when you search. If that sounds like something you wouldn’t want to use, here’s how to turn it off.

http://www.howtogeek.com/265027/how-to-disable-cortana-in-windows-10/

 

Always With Kind Regards

Tasgandy

"one is never too old to listen & learn"

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Cheers for that,

 

 The Aniversary Upgrade has not installed itself here yet, but that was one of the issues I knew about and was looking for a hack to turn it off ASAP.

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