when i signed into cortana on the other account, it just worked by itself. automagically.

so i'm assuming windows 10 restored whatever settings needed to make cortana work. then i logged back...

search for my thread about hey cortana. my fix might work for you.

how about turning on hybrid shutdown? i know in windows 8.1 it was set as default. but how do we do this in windows 10 i wonder?

ok this is how to fix the slow boot up time, goto control panel, computer settings, advance, startup and recovery. change the time to show OS from 30 seconds to 1 sec or 0 sec, and then the bootup...

I was able to fix it. This is how I did it. I logged out of my account. Logged into another account. Signed in to cortana. Set it up. Logged out and back into my main account. Rebooted. Turned on hey...

yea man cortana is hit and miss.... mine works, i can access the setting but the "hey cortana" doesn't work. voice doesn't work.... sucks man.... i'm not sure what i turned off.

Tried to turn on Hey Cortana, it still doesn't work. i messed with the privacy settings, but i may have missed something. please let me know.... common.... thanks!

at first it was like this for me as well, maybe not as slow as you, but then after using it throughoutthe day and rebooting and shutting down a few times, it seems to get faster and faster. i think...

to fix the activation issue, very simple....

just keep clicking activate, activate, activate, non stop until it activates! crazy right?

also, you do not have to upgrade to w10 before you do a...

I was able to turn on the "Hey Cortana" feature when I first installed windows 10 yesterday morning.

but at night, i tried to use it again, and it stopped working. I played around with the privacy...