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How did I succeed in disabling Cortana?
I have two PCs and a laptop, all om Win10 AU. On the 2 PCs when I click on the search icon I get a popup window that says "Start typing to search for apps, files, and settings" at the top and "Search Windows" at the bottom. That is what I want. On the laptop I get the Cortana crap.
Until a few minutes ago I had not used gpedit to set search settings because I had heard they weren't available as of the AU. I see that the settings do still exist, but they weren't needed on the PCs. I just tried disabling Cortana on the laptop, but the setting was ignored (as I expected).
So how come the laptop behaves differently that the two PCs? There are lots of differences in hardware, drivers, etc., but I don't see how that could change this behavior. The laptop has a microphone and the PCs don't. Is that enough to cause the difference?
I just want the ability to search the local computer. I have no desire to have any software trying to emulate Clippy's sister.