Cortana is a personal virtual assistant that was added in Windows Phone 8.1, and is similar to Google Now and Apple's Siri. The Cortana name derives from the Halo. Cortana in Windows 10 is fantastic, but you also lose some real estate on the task bar with the search box being open. Fortunately, it's very simple to reclaim that.
Cortana Search is not finding applications on Windows 1. For the past several versions (since Windows Vista, I think), if you hit the Windows key and start typing, Windows will search for applications. Since upgrading to Windows 1. Cortana, she is only hit or miss at finding applications. And she doesn't do partial searches, either.
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Windows 10 has Cortana, which I don't like. I disabled it as soon as I could. However, looking in Task Manager, the process for Cortana is still running, and can't be. This will be a guide how to install Windows 7 themes properly. You can install themepacks created on Windows 7 by double-clicking on it, but for 3rd party.
Some examples: Win. Key + type . Instead it suggests some applications from the store. Win. Key + type . Nor does typing . However, typing One. Note finds One. Note.
What is the reason for this behavior and how I can get Cortana to find the applications installed on my machine again? Is there a setting I am missing? If I browse to . But Cortana is not finding them.
Everything from the Microsoft Office applications to IIS to Beyond Compare to hundreds of other applications I have installed. Where can I set which folders Cortana indexes? As you can see in the screen shot below, this Start Menu folder is, indeed, indexed: However, none of these applications are coming back as search results from the .
And typing in . But the shortcut to Skype is definitely in this location: C: \Users\Patrick\App. Data\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Skype. The latest Windows 1. Threshold 2) has solved this issue for me. Cortana now finds all my files with no issues.
Previously my only solution was to use Classic Shell, I've been able to uninstall that now and use the standard Windows Start menu.
How to disable Cortana from the task bar in Windows 1. One of the prominent new features in the task bar in Windows 1. Cortana search box to the right of the Start button.
It's a really great tool to have close at hand, but, it does also use up quite a bit of real estate. So, it's understandable you might want to make it go away – especially if you can't use Cortana right now. Fortunately, that's really simple. The search box will be enabled by default when you fire up Windows 1. To make it go away, follow these steps: Right click on the task bar. Select the . To make it go away altogether hit . To make it all come back again follow the same steps but hit the option to enable the search box.
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