W 10 CU update - PLEASE how to get rid of Cortana nag notifications

Hi there

ANYBODY PLEASE tell me how to get rid of annoying random Cortana notifications -- might seem trivial to some but this is REALLY becoming a major irritant for me -- this is the sort of thing that would make me STOP using Windows --I want a clean OS that does what I want it to do -- I don't want to get all sorts of reminders / sales pitches etc. The only reminder I would tolerate if there's some important security fixes to be applied.

Note I've done the disable cortana thing -- however the wretched application is still there somewhere lurking in the bowels of Windows somewhere -- I don't suppose there's any trick to totally uninstall the thing without hosing up Windows.

Cheers
jimbo

dencal said:

Hi Jimbo
Have you tried the following ?

Hi there @dencal
I've tried disabling every possible thing -- however it still sends the odd notification randomly.

I've also tried a "Virgin W10" on a VM --I.e clean install with nothing extra added - same problem so I know the system is clean.

System is W10 PRO X-64 (GB English /UK) edition with latest updates / fixes from Ms. Version 1703.

Another possible solution would be to disable that notification thing completely - but I don't think it's possible.

Apart from the performance - I'm liking Windows 7 more and more now !!!!!! W10 definitely runs a bit snappier and W7 does have the "Configuring updates - don't switch off" message just at the most inconvenient times -- although far less annoying than the cortana notifications.

I hope on business / enterprise versions of W10 these annoying things don't appear like they do on the home computers.

Cheers
Jimbo