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But can still have Search in Start Menu AND also in Settings, how come you can't get that when you remove Cortana in NTLite on a Windows 10 Home/Pro?
LTSB does contain Cortana.
Cortana -Removes the Cortana assistant, tray/start menu search and Settings search functionalities (Microsoft.Windows.Cortana)
Long-Term Servicing Branch (LTSB) excludes Windows Store, most Cortana functionality, and most bundled apps (including Microsoft Edge). Source.
To say it doesnt contain Cortana is misleading, it still contains some of it. It is better to be technically correct and say it has some Cortana. That will stop any confusion because if people are told LTSB doesnt have Cortana and after loading into NTLite they see it does have some then they will start questioning whether their ISO is genuine or not even if the file hash/checksums match.
Be technically correct, it stops any confusion.
No it cannot be enabled
Education and ProfessionalEducation editions were also have Cortana Disabled, upto version 1607
since 1703 it's enabled by default, but can be disabled in Group Policy
You seem to know a lot, so I hope you can answer this question; Privacy wise, is it enough to disable it as the LTSB edition does, or is it better to just remove it completely from a home/pro edition and break some other functionality it gives, like tray/start search?
Unless you dont connect windows 10 to the internet then you will only ever play catch up and ms will always be 2 steps ahead. My major concern is how much telemetry affects performance and bogs the os down.
Unfortunately that's really the best anyone can do when tweaking windows... squeeze out a little extra performance.
I'm not sure that sort of question is really answerable. "Privacy wise", nothing you do with Windows 10 (aside from unplugging the computer it's installed on) will ever be "enough" because Windows is closed-source. I know that's not the answer you want, but if you care about privacy at all, you simply have to switch operating systems.
"Disabling" Cortana, setting telemetry to "Security", and every other possible tweak you can do to windows, is nothing more than you asking it nicely "please don't track me." It's closed-source, meaning nobody except MS and the US gov't really knows what it does.
Had a look at at a ltsc preview, like the last version and near enough same size.
would disabling Cortana using Product Policy be helping Microsoft to track me more than if I removed it completely with NTLite, or would it be same same and removing it completely doesn't do anythingother than saving some space?