Start menu "greyed out" after Creators update

TairikuOkami said:

For the future reference, removing Cortana/SearchUI.exe causes it. SFC scan restores its files.
There are proper ways to remove Cortana, like wim tweak, using powershell commands and etc.


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Enable or Disable Cortana in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Apps Features Tutorials

OK, but that link does NOT remove Cortana. MS has made it even more clear with the creators update that if you mess with Cortana, it will punitively disable a number of other functions.

If you have a method for "properly" removing Cortana to the point where it does not use memory, then please post that.

TairikuOkami said:

For the future reference, removing Cortana/SearchUI.exe causes it. SFC scan restores its files.
There are proper ways to remove Cortana, like wim tweak, using powershell commands and etc.

(safe)
Enable or Disable Cortana in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Apps Features Tutorials

Thank you for this. I had renamed the folder where cortana was located. I've now undone that and followed your link to safely disable it.

One thing though, I'm not sure if it is related to my having disabled disabled cortana but, somehow windows doesn't remember my "Windows+Run" commands history such as 'Regedit, mspaint, gpedit.msc, etc'. I have to re-type them every single time.