Thanks again. I downloaded that utility. And thanks to everyone else who provided solutions.

I made a restore point so I'm going to mark this solved. I would say the first thing to try is to...

I uninstalled the two latest updates. One was Update for Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 Update 4 Redistributable Package (KB3119142) which had been installed not once but nineteen times. I assume all but...

Cortana is hearing me when I ask her to open a program. For example, if I say "Open Control Panel," she asks "Control Panel One or HD Graphics Control Panel Two." I say "One" and she opens control...

I did do the speech recognition set up. It worked with Notepad. I've got Cortana semi working. She will open programs. But if I say "Can you hear me?"...nada. Thinking and then a list of things I can...

I think this fix is major too for one program. I did get the driver back for the on board microphone by rolling the audio driver back and then updating it again as there was an update for it. I can...

Thanks for the info!! Sounds like exactly what I need. Can I put it on a jump drive? Or does that create problems. The SSD on the Surface is not huge and I've already got the old version of Windows...

Thanks for the response. I did discover system restore was turned off and turned it on. But there is no point in making a restore point when it isn't working right. I was messing around with the...

I upgraded my Surface Pro to Windows 10 from Windows 8.1. Ever since then I have had issues with Cortana. I seem to solve them and then Microsoft releases another forced update and it gets all flaky...