Want to REALLY squash Cortana?

[Karlston]

Want to REALLY squash Cortana?

 

Open the Task Manager.

 

Open C:\Windows\SystemApps

 

Rename the folder “Microsoft.Windows.Cortana_cw5n1h2txyewy.”

 

You have to stop the Cortana process in the Task Manager, b/c it’s using the folder.

 

You have to be FAST FAST b/c the process restarts quickly.

 

Reboot.

 

The Cortana “O” still shows in the search box, but the search box is DEAD – you can’t type anything in it.

 

Cortana still shows in the taskbar context menu, but the Cortana icon is also DEAD.

 

Install Classic Shell and type in the search box. You get a “Microsoft Windows Search Indexer” process that shows activity.

 

Don’t know what other effects this might have, but it does the job of killing the Cortana processes and removing them from the Task Manager apparently.

 

 

Excerpt from Does “killing” Cortana really kill Cortana? (AskWoody)

 

Posters note: This is an excerpt from a long article (linked above) where PKCano documents various attempts at stopping Cortana, including the above which seems successful.

[steven36]

i can just disable it with process lasso but it breaks windows search tell i allow it. to run again  so i just disable  it  with O&O ShutUp10 and it then turns into normal windows search and i just block  searchui.exe with my firewall so it dont call home to Bing  . Its nothing new even XP if you didn't block it called home trough normal search .  I dont use no 3rd party start menu since i stop using windows 8.1 . I tried it on Windows 10 1st release TH1 and didn't like using classic shell for it .

[OrbingStorm]

For some reason Cortana has never worked since the anniversary update so I didn't have to do anything .Sometimes I wonder if I'm missing out on something but then I use my pc just fine without it.Remember its software not a her.

[steven36]

14 minutes ago, OrbingStorm said:

For some reason Cortana has never worked since the anniversary update so I didn't have to do anything .Sometimes I wonder if I'm missing out on something but then I use my pc just fine without it.Remember its software not a her.

One time i removed  it from my system with a program that really uninstall it and used classic shell for 3 mths   but i went  back to windows 8.1  tell  like June 2016  and been on windows 10 every since  and i dont break it no more i just turn it off and block the search with a fw. 

[IronY-Man]

Thats why I preferred LTSB edition overall , Cortana and all the UWP and metro-modern clutter is already filtered out in it !!