Cortana in Win 10 20H2 - What is the secret to vaporizing this thing? Still appears on Start Menu

[Sonicmojo]

Just did a fresh config of Win 10 ENT 20H2 and while I believe I got everything Cortana related - I see it's icon appearing on the Start Menu here in my VM.

It also gets updated via the MS Store in my last test a few moments ago. If I click on the icon - a big window pops up telling me Cortana is disabled - but I do not recall there ever being an icon on the Start Menu in all my last Win 10 builds since say 1607 and up.

Is this the reason it's there - and will Search be impacted if I ditch this?



Cheers

Sonic.

 

[Sonicmojo]

Answered my own question - rolled out a test build today and yes - removing that checkbox above does remove the icon and does not impact Search.

S

 

[newcomer]

Sonicmojo are you removing most or all of apps?

i always wanted to remove everything but i ended up breaking a few things

 

[Kasual]

Answered my own question - rolled out a test build today and yes - removing that checkbox above does remove the icon and does not impact Search.

S

Starting from earlier builds, Search is a "standalone" app, not integrated in Cortana wich is great for us because (the useless) Cortana isn't supported in many languages and we can remove it.

 

[Clanger]

Search is a "standalone" app, not integrated in

like it is in w7, not reliant on or needed by other stuff? that'll make liffe easier. modern Search(w7 upwards) is crap.

 

[Kasual]

like it is in w7, not reliant on or needed by other stuff?

Not sure what do You mean but I mean an app, the Search app's folder is located here:
\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.Search_cw5n1h2txyewy\

 

[Clanger]

app schmapp, app program or dll, whatever. you know what i mean