Windows 10: Reliability Monitor: Cortana - Stopped working

I have upgraded to Windows 10 first my laptop and, more recently, my desktop. I use Reliability Monitor daily. Three days into Windows 10, Reliability Monitor on my desktop reported an application failure yesterday: "Cortana - stopped working". There are two further such reports today within a minute of one another. My laptop has not reported this event so far. Everything in Windows+S>Settings is set to off on both machines - I do not want Cortana. Settings>Privacy is set to much the same on both machines, except in Speech, inking and typing. I see that my desktop is set to "Get to know me" and my laptop is set to "Stop getting to know me". I wonder if any other users have advice to overcome my issue in this minefield of settings that Windows 10 offers.

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Cortana&Voice runtime engine stopped working

Today,I ran into:''Cortana&Voice runtime engine stopped working'' on my reliability monitor.

Any fix so far?

It's causing Start Menu & other services like taskbar temporary stop.

Freezes like downside.

 

Com Surrogate Stopped Working - Reliability Monitor

Thank you for suggesting the Clean Boot. I tried a few things with that but the issue still occurs. I might have to dig a little deeper to isolate the problem. It seems like it could be caused by many different things. Like I said, I don't have any
pop ups or programs not working correctly. It's when I look at the Reliability Monitor there will be at least 100 or more Com Surrogate messages per day and they all have the same technical details. I've tried the Data Execution Prevention, Command Prompt
with various scripts, I've run virus and malware (even though I don't think it's a virus issue), rolled back my graphics driver - nothing seems to resolve the issue. Anyway, thanks again and I'll keep working on it.

 

Shameless bump? I've just started getting this after the most recent update and it spams my Reliability monitor without any sign of problems. It's like a constant version of 'Host Process for Windows' that instead of showing up every few weeks for no reason, spams me every day.