Windows 10: has anyone found any use for cortana ?

i'm using a desk top without a mic and all i can see is that its an overhyped search and its kinda lousy at that !!
I can do the same thing it does with my yahoo search ...what am I missing ?

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has any body found a fix for Cortana

Like some other people Cortana has my location for my desktop in Tenn.

I live in Alabama it's using my service provider.

I tried to change it in notebook and bing.

you can add a location to track but the old one remains

that's crazy I only need where I live

please Microsoft fix this or Cortana is useless on a desktop

 

Cortana on windows 10 in uk

Has anyone in uk had windows 10 saying that cortana is not available' in your region' or found a way to resolve this issue/activate cortana.

Any help much appreciated.'

 

you don't miss what you don't know *Smile

I would not even consider "talking" to my computer, at least not in a traditional manner.
If computers were to finally be used in a day to day environment I might be tempted to say: "lights on" or "close curtains"
but to talk to my laptop and / or desktop seems not just silly but also very disturbing to my co-workers.

Cortana is a nice try and if you are in your car trying to get a route to your next destination, talking is a very good option.
For now.... I would not consider the usage other than as a gadget *Smile

Good luck

 

NO I stopped her running 30 mins after upgrade all she does it take up your CPU.

 

On my system "she" uses a whopping 2% of my CPU and 32 to 40 MBs of RAM while "she's" open, otherwise "she" uses 0% CPU.

 

I'm sure she was using more CPU than that but the ram looks about right however I don't see how letting something that you are never going to use take anything from your system.

In fact now that you have brought this up I am not even happy that her folder is taking up 64mb's of my hard drive I'm going to delete her completely.

 

It's good for scheduling events/appointments in the calendar app on Windows. "Hey Cortana, add doctor's appointment to my calendar for September 3rd at 1pm" is about as specific as I think you can get. If you have no use for that or the "Remind me" command then no I don't really see Cortana as all that useful yet. If you keep the weather and such apps out of your start screen/menu then it might give you a quicker way to find that stuff out. It's a pretty decent app launcher I've noticed though.

 

I love using 'Cortana' Just using your Voice She can take you within one Click of the Web Page that you are looking for, without the need to open your Browser and Type.

'Hey Cortana Top Ten Singles on YouTube'

And 'Bam' She takes you straight there.

 

Yes mate If people have a use for such a app I'm sure it's great, it's just a shame you can;t say Hey Cortana shut yourself off and don't use my CPU or RAM until i click you back on.

 

I lied, "she" bumps up CPU usage to 4-6% when "she" first opens, within seconds it drops to under 1%, and some reason "she's" using about double the RAM as my first look.

 

Well the main thing is are you going to use her and if not turn her off, although turning her off don't stop her from running, you have to stop her from running, she's like a nagging wife on your cpu and ram although you have your ear plugs in you can't hear her but she is nagging in the background using up your cpu and ram.

She can be deleted completely in safe mode by taking ownership of her folder.

 

I do use it in Edge:









*Smile

 

What method did you use? If you end the Cortana process in Task Manager it immediately respawns, exactly like a virus or other form of malware (which Windows 10 is preloaded to the brim with). If you use an elevated Powershell to "uninstall" Cortana (which doesn't truly uninstall anything), it won't do it:

Again, exactly like malware. Whoever originally wrote that error message; did he write the part I placed in bold with a straight face? Did I somehow end up in the Twilight Zone? Since when it is "not possible" to uninstall a non-critical application in an operating system? Of course, if you're writing malware, "impossible to uninstall" is ideal.

In any event, I took ownership of the C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.Cortana_cw5n1h2txyewy folder, and then I denied everything to "ALL APPLICATION PACKAGES", "SYSTEM", and "TrustedInstaller". That fixed Cortana's wagon. "She" tried to respawn 3 times in a row, each time lasting only a second before being automatically shut down, and then in a last ditch effort she tried to respawn under a different name ("Cortana Background" something or other, instead of just "Cortana"), but she was snuffed out again, and stayed gone:





She's a tenacious little piece of malware, but Microsoft forgot to give her the power to trump NTFS permissions.

 

Well my post was not for you then enjoy her, can you get her to talk dirty to you?