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I completely killed Cortana, way back... nothing works for reset
I found the Cortana feature extremely creepy and turned it off COMPLETELY some years. Now I would like to use her for dictation but she is completely missing from the machine!
I don't remember what I did to disable Cortana, but I think I would have gone for the most brutal method because I got irritatated about its "spying" capacities. Now it is completely missing from my computer.. No process running, no option in start menu. Whatever I did, it must have been extremely effective.
- I already checked the group policy and registry settings and that is not how I turned it off. Instead, it is as if Cortana never existed.
- I even tried re-installing the Cortana package from Powershell... Still no sign of Cortana... (shouldn't that re-install take a while though? I only saw it loading for a few seconds...)
I am using Windows UK edition, with UK settings.
I know Cortana was there when I first installed Windows 10.
Is there anything else I can try?
Please do not advise me to perform a clean re-install of Windows!
Last edited by Hannele2; 29 Jun 2019 at 10:04.