Cortana just disappeared!

Cyberdesigner said:

Well done Cliff!

I had the location Set to ON but the Update turned it OFF, so I reset it to On and 'Cortana' came back complete with Microphone.

But all my Reminders were missing, so I kept 'Clicking' between Notebook and Reminder and everything came back!

I'm glad to hear it was something so simple to fix. I found out about this while doing something else; re-registering all apps and store to try fixing another problem, re-registering turns location off.

Teflon said:

Interesting. Checked my settings and "Location" is also turned off. Sadly though, I can't seem to turn it on. Hitting the "Change" button brings up the "busy" icon for a fraction of a second, then nothing. The location On/Off button is greyed out.

Any ideas?

Cliff

Try the switch in Action Center:

Something I have saved in a file for undetermined problems like this:

You can fix Windows files by copy & pasting in an Admin Command Prompt:

Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup&sfc/scannow&Dism/Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth&sfc/scannow&pause

And let it run through then
reboot and run it again to check if it cleaned everything. It
may take awhile depending on your hardware(HDD or SSD), and it may
appear to freeze at 20% on the third part, just be patient and
let in run out.

Teflon said:

Whilst waiting for the command line to do it's thing, I was having a look in Services.msc and noticed that "Geolocation" was disabled. Not sure if this has any relevance, but tried to enable it and it said "required file not found" (or similar).

When I get a chance later tomorrow, I will check this against our laptop, which so far has a fully working Cortana.

Thanks for all your help in the meantime, and I'll report back later tomorrow.

Cheers,

Cliff

Good morning!(I just got up) Good idea, you can look in the properties and see what dependencies it has and may another has been changed/turned off.