Open the windows command prompt in administrator mode:
- (on yor keyboard press the Windows icon and the letter “x” simultaneously
- click “Run”
- Type cmd.exe
- Right mouse click command prompt icon on your toolbar
- Right mouse click text “Command Prompt” -> left click “Run as Administrator”
- Kill SearchUI.exe from the command line to Copy This Commands And past to CMD
taskkill /f /im SearchUI.exe
- Finally, rename the Cortana object by “moving” it to another filename. In the below case we’re appending
.stop
to the name. Important: The entirety of the below is on a single line:move %windir%\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.Cortana_cw5n1h2txyewy %windir%\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.Cortana_cw5n1h2txyewy.stop
Windows will next ask your permission to run the command prompt as administrator. Click “Yes”