Please make Cortana stop!

f14tomcat · 21 Jul 2020

ignatzatsonic said:

Good. That worked. No longer listed in Settings/apps and features.

I grabbed the portable version.

Had not used Revo in 6 or 8 years.

Resisted the OVERWHELMING urge to let Revo delete remaining registry entries as I don't want to encourage that habit. So far at least. I may succumb tomorrow.

FYI: Revo makes a copy of deleted reg entries, for backup.

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Ztruker · 21 Jul 2020

Have you tried this tutorial: How to Enable or Disable Cortana in Windows 10

It should work since you have Win 10 Pro.

KCR · 22 Jul 2020

f14tomcat said:

In 2004, it's an app and will be listed in Revo. That's how I uninstalled it.

I don't want to uninstall it. . . yet.

But I see that it is listed in CCleaner. . .

I haven't a clue if that method works, or not ?

NB: I haven't read Shawn's tutorial yet either, but "The Beast" .

. seems to stay disabled on my machine. .

f14tomcat · 22 Jul 2020

KCR said:

I don't want to uninstall it. . . yet.

But I see that it is listed in CCleaner. . .

I haven't a clue if that method works, or not ?

NB: I haven't read Shawn's tutorial yet either, but "The Beast" .

. seems to stay disabled on my machine. .

I haven't tried the CCleaner method for a long time, but my remembrance is it does not do as deep a cleaning as Revo. I think it just does the same as right-clicking the App entry in Settings and clicking Uninstall (if not greyed) out. Revo gets the reg entries (with a backup) and the file entries.

shipwreck · 25 Jul 2020

Thanks again everyone for your input. Tried all but Winaero Tweaker which I about to do now. Failing that, I will have to use Task Manager to disable it each time I fire up Windows 10

dalchina · 25 Jul 2020

If it's that desperate, why not schedule a task run on logon to do that and let Windows do it for you?

Ztruker · 25 Jul 2020

Did you follow Brink's tutorial yet?

margrave55 · 30 Jul 2020

This subject comes up often, and I don't know why.

I first got Windows 10 about four years ago. Win 10 was new to me.

I saw this Cortana thing. Obvious spyware. So I followed some online instructions to disable it. It was gone. I haven't seen it since.

So why has it become a recurring problem for so many people?

dalchina · 30 Jul 2020

As I said, no need to take special action to disable it on a normally working system, unless you run into an MS-created bug related to an update that causes high CPU-usage. Merely stop it responding to 'Hey Cortana' in Settings. Zero resource usage so it can't be doing anything - even 'spying'.

(And if you're afraid of spying, never, ever, use the internet. Keep your PC's 'air gapped').

f14tomcat · 30 Jul 2020

dalchina said:

As I said, no need to take special action to disable it on a normally working system, unless you run into an MS-created bug related to an update that causes high CPU-usage. Merely stop it responding to 'Hey Cortana' in Settings. Zero resource usage so it can't be doing anything - even 'spying'.

(And if you're afraid of spying, never, ever, use the internet. Keep your PC's 'air gapped').

And used only in an EMI protected room, NO Wi-Fi. Ever. And disable the Bluetooth adapter and remove all USB connect dongles for radio controlled devices.