Windows 10: Disabling Cortana, for real.

No hate posts please. The idea of Cortana is great. Especially from a nerdy "my computer is a lady and can talk to me" standpoint. I dig that. But realistically, I'm not going to make use of Cortana's awesomeness, and I know it. So, I want to stop Cortana from taking up my system resources if I can.

So far I have clicked the little setting "gear" symbol and turned off "Search Online" and "Cortana can give suggestions, alerts, etc.". Those were the only two options under settings. I'm fine with the search bar itself being on my task bar, so I haven't hidden it. Though I tried doing that to see if it made a difference. Still, when I check Task Manager Cortana is still listed using up memory.

Any ideas how to stop that?

:)

 

How to Disable Windows Defender in Windows 10 Preview

I don't know what all the fuss is about - just install Avast free.

Defender is disabled, no popups - no updates for defender in WIn update (WUAPP)

Add Classic shell or Start 10, disable the ridiculous cortana thing, you now have a real search without searching the internet, a real start menu, a real AV, - oh, of course, use Firefox and get rid of spartan to have a real browser, use Ad blocker plus
also with Firefox.

Chose auto logon (local account!) disable the lockscreen completely - disable all metro apps and uninstall all that you can.

Dont use onedrive.

MOST of the malware and adware is now gone.

It is reasonable now, but win 7 is still far better.

 

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when is the oficial reales date of cortana for mexico.....it was anaunced to be reales after 2016

 

Hello Sakuro,

See if turning off Cortana using both OPTION ONE and OPTION TWO in the tutorial below may help. *Smile

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

 

Thank you for the response Brink. I have done both of those things. Cortana is still listed in Task Manager as using up memory.

 

In that case, restart the computer to see if it still is afterwards.

 

There was no change after restarting. Cortana still shows up in Task Manager under "Background Processes" and continues to use up resources despite all those things being off.

 

This would be for the search feature then since Cortana is used for search as well..

 

That makes some sense. But isn't 23+ MB a bit much for a search feature?

 

You would think it would be, but when comparing to other processes, it's not so much these days.

 

You can look into disabling Windows Search and Cortana, not sure if if its possible or if you would like the results. It's best to deal with the 23MB RAM usage. Mine's much higher and I've also disabled Cortana from the Cortana Search Settings.

 

So this appears to destabilize the OS in minor ways, but most likely in additionally messed up ways that won't be noticeable until you go to use a different feature down the line. Fun experiment anyway so...

Get Revo Uninstaller Pro trial
Navigate to C:\windows\systemapps and look for the Cortana folder
Right click the Cortana folder and choose Uninstall with Revo Uninstaller.
When it finds leftover registry entries, select all and delete. Then reboot.
You may need to run that twice, but it washes it out of task manager and completely kills search/typing into the start menu.
Then you hide the Search bar and Win10 starts looking like a different beast.






I'm tweeting all my crazy Win10 adventures Twitter. Alles, was gerade los ist.

 

Does any Windows Search or Indexing work with this method? Like in Explorer, etc. Thanks.

 

Go into services and disable windows search. I do not use it or Cortana. I do not have a mic so it would not help me.

 

Wise put out a search program that is great called Wise JetSearch
just do a Google search for it.