Please make Cortana stop!

Hi everyone & thank you for your input. I have tried everything mentioned above. Each time I ended it in Task Manager a second, then third Cortana would spawn, again using 20 +% of my CPU. I have finaly stopped it by going into Windows / SystemApps & renaming the Cortana file. Not only does it not show up in Task Manager, even updating to the latest Windows does not re-add it. No problems with anything at the moment. Fingers crossed!

This is how we did it -

Boot into the Repair environment -

move C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.Cortana_cw5n1h2txyewy C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.Cortana_cw5n1h2txyewy.000

Cortana and SearchUI.exe don't start, but several Critical DCOM errors thrown because Windows can't find them.

Add registry key -

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search]
"AllowCortana"=dword:00000000

Cortana and SearchUI.exe still start but go into Suspend immediately

With this batch script you can uninstall Cortana from latest version of Windows 10.

Code:

:: Uninstall Cortana in Windows 10 version 2004

@Echo Off & Cls 


(Net session >nul 2>&1)||(PowerShell start """%~0""" -verb RunAs & Exit /B)

:choice

Cls & Mode CON  LINES=11 COLS=55 & Color 0E & Title Created By FreeBooter
Echo.
Echo.
Echo.
Echo        Uninstall Cortana for Current User  (C)?   
Echo.       
Echo        Uninstall Cortana for All Users     (A)?
Echo.


Set /p input= RESPONSE: 

If /i  Not %input%==C (Goto :_Ex) Else (Goto :_CurrentUser) 

:_Ex
If /i Not %input%==A  (Goto :choice) Else (Goto :_AllUsers)



:_CurrentUser

Echo Get-AppxPackage *Microsoft.549981C3F5F10* ^| Remove-AppxPackage > CurrentUser.ps1

Powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -File CurrentUser.ps1

Del CurrentUser.ps1


Exit



:_AllUsers

Echo Get-appxpackage -allusers *Microsoft.549981C3F5F10* ^| Remove-AppxPackage > AllUsers.ps1

Powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -File AllUsers.ps1

Del AllUsers.ps1


Exit

f14tomcat said:

Doesn't get all the reg entries and file entries. The Revo method, or one similar to it, does.

All i can say after uninstalling Cortana with this batch script there is no Cortana process at Task Manager.