Windows 10: How to Change Regional Settings to Make Cortana Work

Cortana on Windows 10 will only work in specific regional settings and languages: Regions: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, United Kingdom, and United States. Languages: Chinese (Simplified), English (U.K.), English (U.S.), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish It is currently unclear at which regions and with which languages Cortana works, but [...]

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Cortana not recognising UK region setting

Hi Laurence,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

I would like to inform you that as of now Cortana is only available for U.S.-English. Though search will work in all languages.

I suggest you to change the Language and Region to English (United States), United States to explore Cortana.

You may follow below steps to perform the same.

• Press windows key + x
• Open Control Panel.
• If you’re in the standard view, open Clock, Language, and Region and then click Region.
• In Region change the following settings:
  • Go to Formats tab and set format as English (United States).
  • Go to Location tab and set Home Location as United States.
  • Go to Administrative tab and set Current System Locale to English (United States).

4. In Clock, Language, and Region, click Languages and make sure English (United States) is set as your primary language. If you don’t have the language install, click on Add a language, search for English (United States), install
it, and set it as your primary.

5. Re-boot your computer and you should now be able to use Cortana outside of the US.

Hope these information helps, please get back to us for future support, we’ll be glad to assist you further.

 

Edge Search Does Not Permit Change of Region


I got these suggestions from the Microsoft Community forum.No. 1 worked for me:

Thank you for posting the query on Microsoft Community. I am glad to assist you on this.
We have reproduce the issue here and we are able to access non-regional search for google using Microsoft Edge.
I would suggest you to try the below steps and check if it helps.
Step 1:
Clear browsing data option of Microsoft Edge and check if you face the issue. To do so perform the steps below.

1. Click on the More actions icon next to the feedback icon present on top right corner of the Project Spartan homepage.
2. Select Settings and click on Choose what to clear.
3. Check the boxes Browsing history, Cookies and saved website data and Cached data and files and click on Clear.

Step 2:
I suggest you to create a new user account and check if the issue occurs.

1. Go to Settings.
2. Choose Accounts and then select Family and other users.
3. Select add someone else on this PC.
4. Enter a user name and hit next.
5. Click on Finish.
6. Sign out from the current Account and Log into the new account.

Step 3:
It could also happen because of network issue. I suggest you to try with different network connection and check if it helps.

 

Use Cortana without changing region settings in Windows 10 Insider bui


Use Cortana without changing region settings in Windows 10 Insider build 14322

Cortana is getting more and more useful on Windows 10 devices, and we previously reported last week that the latest Windows 10 Mobile Insider build 14322 brought a more convenient way to set reminders from photos or content from supported UWP apps. However, not all Windows 10 users are currently allowed to rely on the digital assistant as Cortana is still limited to 13 countries (USA, Australia, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, EU5, India, China and Japan).

While users in unsupported countries could still access Cortana by changing region and language settings on their devices, that’s not exactly convenient to do. But a Reddit user named Denaxin just discovered that Cortana could be enabled without changing region and language settings on Windows 10 Mobile build 14322. We tested it on our own and we can confirm that it works, as you can see:

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Use Cortana without changing region settings in Windows 10 Insider build 14322