Cortana - disposal

50Twuncle

I have tried to remove "cortana" from my Win 10 laptop with no success !!
It keeps on reappearing when I try to kill it using Task Manager
One recommendation that I read was to try renaming the cortana folder but Windows self protection comes in to play and I was not allowed to do that.
Has anyone discovered a way to permanently send cortana to "whence it begat" - ie Hell ?
The thing uses over 37Mb of memory - even though it is disabled ...

Mr_Toad

I sometimes wonder why you bother with a computer at all, 37meg is nothing.

Why not just turn it off and forget about it?

It can be removed - Google is your friend.

50Twuncle

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No it most certainly is not MY friend
How do I prevent both Google and MS from spying on me ?

pappa_golf

50Twuncle wrote: »

No it most certainly is not MY friend
How do I prevent both Google and MS from spying on me ?

buy an apple mac and use yahoo

kwikbreaks

I think it was here that I saw the lazy man's way to turning off all the MS spy settings in W10 mentioned.

http://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

Wherever it was it seems to make turning most stuff off simple. Doubtless there will be other stuff lurking it doesn't cover. To be frank I really couldn't give a tinkers curse on what else MS, Google, HMG, Santa, or others want to know about me.

50Twuncle

pappa_golf wrote: »

buy an apple mac and use yahoo

And apple are trustworthy are they ?
https://stallman.org/apple.html

pappa_golf

I did not say that , I replied to your question "How do I prevent both Google and MS from spying on me ?"


I note you have been given a possible solution above

50Twuncle

kwikbreaks wrote: »

I think it was here that I saw the lazy man's way to turning off all the MS spy settings in W10 mentioned.

http://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

Wherever it was it seems to make turning most stuff off simple. Doubtless there will be other stuff lurking it doesn't cover. To be frank I really couldn't give a tinkers curse on what else MS, Google, HMG, Santa, or others want to know about me.

Thanks - used that app - which seems OK .....

RumRat

Funny thing is that you actually think that makes you safe........

kwikbreaks

An umbrella won't keep you 100% dry but if it's pouring down would you decide not to put the one in your hand up?

Just because our government spies on us, google spies on us, our dns can spy on us, our isp can spy on us, and doubtless many others can to there is no reason not to close some of the open doors if you can.

RumRat

kwikbreaks wrote: »

An umbrella won't keep you 100% dry but if it's pouring down would you decide not to put the one in your hand up?

Just because our government spies on us, google spies on us, our dns can spy on us, our isp can spy on us, and doubtless many others can to there is no reason not to close some of the open doors if you can.

I wouldn't stop them closing doors, pity it doesn't stop their paranoia though. You either stop panicking or do what you can and go with it.....The alternative is not to use any of it and that's not going to happen.