These are the steps you have to take to disable or even uninstall Cortana in Windows 10

Cortana is the Microsoft assistant, the alternative that, installed on all Windows computers, came to compete with Siri, Google Assistant and on another level with Alexa. And the truth is that over time, the situation with the Microsoft assistant is not good Almost testimonial, the company has ended up making Cortana an independent application .

Therefore it is not surprising that there are more and more, those users who want to disable Cortana or even uninstall it from their computers, something possible since the arrival of Windows 10 May 2020 Update.Therefore, if in your case you do not want to know anything about Cortana, we are going to detail the necessary steps to deactivate it and even uninstall it on your computer.

Disable or Uninstall

If you already have the latest public and stable version of Windows on your computer, you should know that you can now deactivate or uninstall the Microsoft assistantThis is possible since with Windows 10 2004 Cortana officially became a standalone app. The possibility of using Alexa in Windows has a lot to do with it.

"Based on this premise, it is enough to enter the list of applications at the start of the Task Manager. To do this, simply press the CTRL + SHIFT + ESC keys simultaneously and thus open the Task Manager."

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Once inside, we must go to the Home tab>"

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We will click on Cortana with the right mouse button and then click on Disable. Cortana will stop consuming resources and memory when it starts every time we start the computer."

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But you may want to go further and uninstall Cortana from your PC Something you can also do easily through PowerShell and of an instruction you have to type, thus avoiding tapping in the Windows Registry Editor, although this method does not erase all traces of Cortana in the PC."

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To do this you must go to the Start menu and search for PowerShell. Once you have located it, right-click and select Run as administrator."

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You will see how a terminal window opens and in it you must write the following command: Get-AppxPackage -allusers Microsoft.549981C3F5F10 | Remove-AppxPackage Be careful to keep the spaces and at the end press the Enter key. This will remove Cortana from your PC."

If at any given time you want to reinstall Cortana, just go to the Microsoft Store and download it as a standalone application to return install it.

Remove Cortana with Registry Editor

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But if what we want is to delete all traces of Cortana, all we have to do is launch the Registry Editor. We will have to type Regedit>"

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Once inside we must navigate through the side menu of folders until we reach the following directory: HKEYLOCALMACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WcmSvc ."

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We must enter the WcmSvc folder, which we must create if it does not exist and once in it we press with the right mouse button mouse over it by choosing the options New and Password. "

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We call the new folder WindowsSearch and once the file WindowsSearch is created, we select it and Click with the right mouse button to open the new menu in which we must select again New>DWORD (32 bits) In the box we must write AllowCortanaand then give it the value 0."

We are done and all that remains is to restart the computer so that when Cortana starts up it will have disappeared forever.