Friday 28 September 2018

Turning off Cortana

Cortana is a memory hog in Windows 10.

55MB is the norm which is sizable, next only to a web browsers in memory usage, however this is memory lost when the computer is idle so double wastage.  Hovering over the Windows search bar, Right Click -> select Cortana -> Hidden, will make the search box disappear but Cortana will still be running. In fact, not just Cortana, but Cortana and "Runtime Broker" (potentially also Cortana Background Task Host).

Cortana is removed from Windows 10 Education editions including Windows 10 Education and Windows 10 Pro Education.

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