How to turn off Cortana

 

How to Disable Cortana Windows 10 Anniversary Edition


On a system running Windows 10 Home, you need to make a manual edit to the registry. Find the key

HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search

(you might need to create this key if it doesn't exist),


Right click on Windows folder and new Key and name it Windows Search


and then create the DWORD 32 value AllowCortana and set it to 0.