Cortana is the personal assistant from Microsoft. It had its golden age with Windows 10 and Windows Phone. But as the years have passed, Microsoft’s assistant has suffered a recession important and a fairly important loss of functions.
Today there are few users who continue to use Cortana due to the lack of answering the simplest questions, opting for Alexa or Google Assistant. In this tutorial we are going to show you how you can uninstall it easily.
How to uninstall Cortana on Windows
To uninstall it from our Windows 10 or Windows 11 computer, follow these steps:
- We open the windows search clicking on the magnifying glass that we have on the taskbar. You can also search by opening the start menu.
- we seek PowerShell and when we find it, we right-click the result and click Execute as an administrator
- When the PowerShell window has opened, you need to paste the following command: Get-AppxPackage -allusers Microsoft.549981C3F5F10 | Remove-AppxPackage
- You must wait for the uninstall process to complete. Once finalizedCortana will already be removed from your Windows installation.
In Windows 11 you will no longer have to do any more steps, but in Windows 10 the Cortana icon will still appear. To hide it, you must click right to the taskbar, and click on the option Show the Cortana button.
How to reinstall Cortana on Windows
If for some reason you have regretted uninstalling Cortana, we will show you how you can reinstall it.
- Click on the following link, where it will take you to the Microsoft Store
- When we have entered, we click on Get.
- It will ask us to open the browser the Microsoft Store. We click on To open.
- When the Windows store has been opened, we will only have to click on Install.
- When finish the installation of the application, you will be able to find Cortana in your applications again.