try reinstalling your microphone driver, though it only worked for me for a couple of days.

Yea it's annoying, btw cortana is working again I don't know why lol

Update: Cortana not working again

I uninstalled my microphone driver in the device manager and I let it reinstall itself and got Cortana to work again after I booted it up again later in the day.

Thanks! changing the power button settings solved my problem.

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Yes, in the task manager it says cortana is running, but every time I click the mic button the black box appears and then disappears quickly also causing my start button to not work for some seconds.

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I have a problem with my Lenovo laptop that when I hit shutdown in the start menu, it will restart instead. At the sign in screen I can press shutdown and it will work fine, but it is just annoying...

I have a problem with Cortana not opening after pressing the mic button on the taskbar and "Hey Cortana" does not work also.

This is a clean install of windows 10 on a Lenovo laptop, I had no...

Thank you very much! The driver worked, no more yellow exclamation in the device manager. Even though I still don't know exactly what it does lol.

I'm not sure whats the model number of the motherboard I have. Its a lenovo y510p laptop. Where can I get this driver and is it necessary?

I'm trying to figure out what this PCI simple communications controller is and where can I download the driver for it. I've tried updating it from the device manager, but it tells me driver could not...

Just want to make sure, if I go with option two and click remove files and clean drive in step 7, is that the same thing as a clean install, but easier I guess.

I did the sfc /scannow and it came back saying it found corrupt files and was only able to fix some of them. Cortana still does not work for me though.

Yea cortana stopped working for me too, when I press the mic button the grey box just comes up and disappears.