Cortana disable permanently

[PrestonK]

I would like to rid my laptop of Cortana forever. I have googled around to no avail. I have modified the registry too per How To Geek instructions without any luck. It keeps coming back. Any ideas?
Preston

[HansV]

Did you create DWORD values named AllowCortana with value 0 in both

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search

and

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search

[PrestonK]

Only the first one. I'll do the second.

[PrestonK]

I did the second key. It came back!

[HansV]

Hmm... it works for me, but that might be because Cortana isn't completely available in my country.

[jstevens]

Sounds like Cortana has a language barrier.

[jolas]

additional info that you may like to know and consider

[HansV]

Sounds like Cortana has a language barrier.

It's not the language - my Windows is set to US English. But Windows "knows" that I am in The Netherlands, so it offers a very limited version of Cortana.

[PrestonK]

Thank you all.
I updated Windows 10 manually and I also updated the touchpad/mouse driver and its gone now, hopefully forever!

[HansV]

Good to hear that!

[DaveA]

I disabled Cortana back on day one of Windows 10.
I have not had it reactivated with ANY update including the major spring and fall updates!

[BobH]

Did you create DWORD values named AllowCortana with value 0 in both

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search

and

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search

Hans, can you elaborate on this or point me to an article that will give me step by step instructions? I have limited resources on this laptop and would like to remove Cortana as it is something I don't use and don't expect ever to use.

[HansV]

See How to Disable Cortana in Windows 10

[BobH]

Thank you, Mr. V.!!! That one DWORD did the trick. I didn't have to do a second one as mentioned above.