Guide: How to Enable/Disable Cortana in Windows 10 PC
If you are having problems with Cortana, or if you don’t want Cortana to record and save your personal information, turn off Cortana in Windows 10. In this guide, we’ll show you how to Temporarily and permanently disable Cortana in Windows 10 Home Edition, Windows 10 Pro and Windows 10 Enterprise and how to prevent Cortana from logging and saving your search habits and history.
How to Enable Cortana outside of the US
To enable Cortana in your region, just enter your home location to the United States. You should know that this change will be affected OS wide. But the date and time and keyboard settings remain the same.
How to Hide Cortana search box in the taskbar
Activated or not, Cortana will display itself as a search box in the taskbar, right next to Start buttonIt is also important to note that Windows Search and Cortana Search are now the same. So even if you press the Windows key and start typing, you will be presented with the Cortana box. If you want to turn off the search box that says “Ask me something” and put Cortana in a button Instead, right-click on the taskbar, select Cortana and select the Show Cortana icon. If you select Hidden, the icon will disappear. You can re-enable it with the same process. Again, you’re only hiding Cortana, not turning it off. Just press Windows key + S keyboard shortcut to bring up Cortana whenever you want.
How to Turn off Cortana
Okay, here’s the big one. It seems like you have decided to say goodbye to the beautiful lady Cortana. But don’t worry, there will be no consequences. With its like nothing more than algorithms and code and all. It doesn’t matter if you decided to let her go because it’s not helpful to you, or because you can’t put up with all the stalking she does. After all, turning on Cortana gives it the right to track your location, what you type, browsing history, calendar, contacts, and more.
Turn off Bing Search
Okay, so Cortana is gone, but you can still use the same thing feature to search for things in Windows and the Internet. The problem is, Internet searches in Bing open in your default browser. Now you want to switch from Edge to Chrome as the default browser first. Read how to do that here. Next, you need to install the Chometana extension in Google Chrome. This basically redirects any Bing searches that open in Chrome to Google, DuckDuckGo, or even Yahoo.
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