UPDATED: Oct 31 2022 – If you are in a corporate setting, so called “alerts” can be quite annoying to your users and you will likely want to disable them. Unfortunately there are no native GPO’s to disable the various notifications. Fortunately there are two very easy ways to disable Read more
If you find your Windows 10 Start Menu is functional but typing text in the search bar is very slow or sluggish, there is a very easy fix. NOTES: If icons are missing or clicking on START menu items does nothing, the fix for that is HERE You will still be Read more
UPDATE: June 2, 2020 – Microsoft has changed the way they manage Cortana so in newer builds of Windows 10 the work is MUCH easier. See THIS article. If, like me, your Windows 10 Cortana is non-responsive (or you just don’t want Cortana) we will show you how to remove Read more
If you want to disable the Cortana personal search assistant in Windows 10 using Group Policy this is the place for you: Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Search . You can also edit the registry locally: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search to a DWORD with a value of 0 . Read more
Microsoft describes Cortana as a digital personal assistant while that is a fair description, it hardly tells you what Cortana does. Cortana is a search tool that can be activated by typing text in the ASK ME ANYTHING field to the right of the START button, or it can be Read more
Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Branch (LTSB) differs from the primary fork of Windows 10 (so called Current Branch CB) in more than just future enhancements. Win 10 LTSB has three very notable programs removed from it: CORTANA: Microsoft’s personal assistant, voice command feature that works… pretty well, is just Read more