Hi guys, this is ADam. This video is gonna
show you on Windows 10 Home, Windows 10 Professional,
and Windows 10 Enterprise, how to disable
Cortana using the registry editor. To access
the Registry Editor you wanna go to START
and type in "regedit" - one word - R E G E D I T.
You should get this icon with the little
blocks. When you click it, you might get a popup.
It'll say "User Account Control". "Do
you want to allow this app to make changes?"
Click "YES". Then you'll get the Registry
Editor Window, Which I've already pulled up.
Then you go to the third option, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
and click the little arrow to get this drop down.
You're gonna keep clicking the arrows
for software, Policies, Microsoft, Windows,
and if you have a folder for Windows Search,
you'll open that folder as well. If not, just
right click on Windows, go to NEW, KEY. Type
in these two words: Windows Search (With a space).
Press Enter. Now it's highlighted so
over here on this blank space, right click,
NEW, DWORD (32-bit) value. And now, in one
word, type: AllowCortana. There's a capital
"A" and a Capital "C". Press Enter. Now your
value should be set to zero but if it's not,
double-click it and change the value to be
zero, Hexadecimal, OK.
At this point all you need to do is log out and log in or restart
your machine and the changes will take effect.
You won't get popups for Cortana, It won't
search the web when you're searching locally
in your computer, all of Cortana is disabled
at this point.
And that's all there is to it. Then you can close the registry editor
and be done.
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