{"id":11185,"date":"2016-06-01T16:44:32","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T20:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=11185"},"modified":"2016-06-01T16:46:47","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T20:46:47","slug":"rosemary-hates-cortana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/rosemary-hates-cortana\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosemary Hates Cortana"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rosemary hates Windows 10’s Cortana<\/strong>
\nI hate this feature and can\u2019t turn it off. I went to settings and to Cortana and turned off all her functions and she is still yapping at me \u2013 \u201cDown arrow\u201d \u201cdown arrow\u201d Bad work, Microsoft, very bad!<\/p>\n

Our answer<\/strong>
\nFor those not using Windows 10 – Cortana is Microsoft’s answer to Apple’s Siri. A sort of virtual concierge to help you with stuff like “What’s the weather?” “What’s on TCM tonight?” “How do I make a zillion dollars?” Stuff like that.<\/p>\n

Some like Cortana and some don’t like Cortana, while other couldn’t care less. To each his\/her own.<\/p>\n

You can turn off Cortana, once and for all, via the registry. Most people don\u2019t like mucking about in the registry, so we\u2019ve created a zip file containing 2 REG keys: One to turn off (Disable) Cortana and one to turn on (Enable) Cortana.\u00a0Download our Disable-Enable-Cortana zip file from here<\/span>,<\/a>\u00a0and save it to your desktop. Unzip the file. You\u2019ll have two files \u2013 one called Disable_Cortana and the other called Enable_Cortana (just in case you want to turn Cortana back on someday). Double-click on Disable_Cortana.reg . It will add a DWORD to the registry that will disable Cortana. In order for the change to take effect, you\u2019ll need to restart your computer. Nothing will change until you restart you’re computer.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re sure you\u2019re never going to want Cortana, you can delete the zip file that you downloaded. If you\u2019re not sure, or want to play it safe, save the zip file in your downloads or documents folder. All you have to do to\u00a0enable Cortana, is just unzip the file and double-click on Enable_Cortana.reg and restart you’re computer.<\/p>\n

Hope this stops Cortana from nagging you. Now if I only had a zip file to make EB stop nagging me!<\/p>\n

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Rosemary hates Windows 10’s Cortana I hate this feature and can\u2019t turn it off. I went to settings and to Cortana and turned off all her functions and she is still yapping at me \u2013 \u201cDown arrow\u201d \u201cdown arrow\u201d Bad work, Microsoft, very bad! Our answer For those not using Windows 10 – Cortana is Microsoft’s answer to\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11185"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11188,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11185\/revisions\/11188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}