Windows 10: has anyone found any use for cortana ?

Haven't tried that, but I did ask her if she'd have sex with me. lol

Her reply in the preview builds were "I will need further compatibility upgrades to do that". *chuckle

But now she just says "nope" or "I don't think I can help you with that".

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*Roflmao2

 

I don't know what you find over-hyped. It works exactly as described.

 

To completely remove cortana you need to boot into safe mode then find her folder C:/Windows/SystemApps/Microsoft.Windows.Cortana_cw5n1h2txyewy and If you never want her again take ownership of the folder and delete, or just delete the file that is running in your task manager, I can't remember what it's called I deleted it.

Beware this also removes your search ability.

 

It was the first thing I disabled after I upgraded, followed by the Action Center.

By the way, as pointed out previously, removing the Cortana folder also removes the ability to search from the Start menu or the Task bar, but you can still search for files from within any File Explorer window.

 

You would only need to boot into safe mode if you can't get her to stop running in normal mode. I used NTFS permissions to prevent her from running, so I could delete the whole folder without booting to safe mode (I renamed it instead).

You mean the one on the task bar? I don't care about that one; I hid it as soon as I installed Windows 10. The only search I care about is the standard files and folders search in Explorer, and that still works fine without the "help" of Cortana.

 

I love it however not enough to keep her *Roflmao2

 

YES it was a bit of a chow stopping it then deleting the file so safe mode where she don't hang out was the easiest option to send her to the big speech therapist in the sky.

 

Haven't experienced this before:
Ask Cortana to play 'xxxxx' and she'll play every song in your library that has that word in the title.

 

I am not allowing her out of recycle jail until she promises not to use my cpu and ram without permission, she is currently charged with theft.

 

Well, like I said, if you take ownership of the folder and then deny everything to every user or group listed that isn't human, Cortana is unable to run, and you can then do what you want without booting into safe mode. I didn't delete anything, because that's harder to reverse if I ever need to, but I did rename the folder (added ".bak" to it) as an extra measure.

 

Do me a favour check your task manager and see if she's still there.

 

Now Microsoft knows about your doctors appointment....*Think

 

No, it's on a server somewhere it'll never be looked at. Ever heard of information overload?

 

Just where is the task manager found on Win10?

 

right click start menu or toolbar
or
control + alt + delete and select it