I completely killed Cortana, way back... nothing works for reset


  1. Hannele2
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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!
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  3. Brink
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    Hello,

    If you like, you could try doing a repair install to restore Cortana without losing anything.

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  4. Hannele2
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    Thank you Brink! I saw that in an old post, and was just checking it out. But doesn't that mean that all installed non-Microsoft software is lost and will have to be reinstalled?
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  6. Brink
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    No worries. You will not lose any installed apps.
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