Windows 10: Cortana: The spy in Windows 10

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Error: cortana is disabled by company policy

Original Title: Fix Cortana and Enable it

Hi

i After launching the Destroy Windows 10 Spying application and clicking on the " Destroy windows 10 spying " Cortana is not working.

The following message displays

cortana is disabled by company policy.

i enable it from gpedit.msc but still disable and not working.

how i can fix it?i need cortana.

 

What is "ActionUri OOP Server"?

OK but what if Cortana is already shut off at the Search Windows area on the Task Bar and in Microsoft Edge? Is there some sort of sneaky hidden process happening? I searched through everything possible to not have myself broadcast into the universe, disabled
a ton of settings.

I also noticed that Cortana is actually running and no matter what I do to kill the task it reappears. Is this linked to Windows Search? Can Microsoft not call it something else so that it doesn't look like Cortana the Master Spy is uhm, spying on me?????????????

 

Tin Helmet brigade rears its ugly head again.....yawn!!!!

 

You can still sign out of or disable Cortana.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/4...dows-10-a.html

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2...dows-10-a.html

 

Computerworld - where useless tech journalists go to die *Zip

 

Could not agree more...just page filling rubbish

 

Although I'm not particularly keen on the tone of the article, the request for a simple Cortana on/off switch like they had before and the advice to not install Windows with 'Express Settings' seems reasonable.

Cortana has respected my settings and remained off for me after the AU update though, therefore I don't have the Cortana Notepad icon in the Start Menu Search. So I guess I'll have to cross this bridge when I format my machine next.

 

Make sure you're properly attired

 

By all means counter the points made by the author in the article. However to try to belittle and mock people who care about their privacy and take an interest in exactly what data is being collected and what happens to data collected is of no use to anyone.

 

The link is to Computerworld the Information is junk by definition

 

A friend and his wife who both saw their laptops upgraded from 8.1 love the voice command option while I simply put Cortana on the disabled list from the start. I still haven't gotten around to removing the icon off of the taskbar however since the RS1 update went on.

I wouldn't say everything from Computerworld is "junk science" but this 3rd party Tech Connect source raises some eye brows however. A number of junk blogs seem to be page fillers there. Other blogs they have link to Infoworld and PC World articles no longer seen going by how those were dated.

 

It can be turned off but not easily/obviously. I did not have a particular issue with Cortanta pre SP1 but removing the obvious off switch is not conducive to privacy/transparency. A lot of people are probably unintentionally giving away their information, which I have a fundamental issue with.

It's a recurring theme on this forum.

 

Whenever you fill out some form or sign up for something new on the web you are in a sense handing over at least some of your privacy as far as email addresses if not adding in personal information, location, etc. Some time later you then find new junk emails suddenly start coming in indicating your info was sold/passed along to marketing.

The difference with Cortana however is that the information is gathered by a known source namely MS not 100 unknowns. The things you search for, browsing history to an extent along with a small amount of other data mostly system logs, etc.

With a fast right click on the main taskbar the Cortana option there is to show or hide the icon which once hidden is never hit by accident. When going into the Universal App and intentionally clicking on the Cortana item there nothing happens showing that having previously disabling Cortana is still in effect. On any clean install of W10 at this time however you might need to refer to the guide for this on how to turn on or off if not disable entirely. Cortana - Enable or Disable in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums

The first option refers to bringing up the Local Group Policy editor to go in and locate the Allow Cortana item there while the second is a fast reg mod to see the change of setting made in the registry itself. For a double layer of security or to simply insure nothing or no one can come along and trip it back to enabled again use both options!

 

The tinfoil hat was created by the NSA and directly aimed at Americans who thought they had common sense, When a very small percentage of the population that actually did have common sense pointed out that certain frequencies are in fact greatly amplified.

These amplified frequencies coincide with radio bands reserved for government use according to the Federal Communication Commission (FCC).

Fast forward to today when the NSA finds a man woman or child that actually posses common sense they are quickly removed from the general population.