Stop Cortana on Windows 10

This is just a quick tip, how to get rid of Cortana. I'm writing this entry just because, while coding, the Cortana app, which is deeply routed into the Windows 10 operating system, was constantly accessing, monitoring and whatever else it does, it started to become annoying, lowering my ability to concentrate on the learning process.

There are several tricks out there, that doesn't work, I must add, to stop this application from executing. Among these are the suggested use of regedit, to add a key. Another is to make a call to the Group Policy Editor. There is yet a simpler way to stop Cortana from doing anything. Many Firewall and Security Apps have a feature that allows its users to simply contain an application, or it contains it by itself, if it is a threat to the system.

So, here is the way to do it with Comodo Security Suite. Open it, go to Advanced Settings, HIPS Rules, scroll down to find :\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.Cortona_cw ....\SearchUI.exe

check Use Ruleset and select Contained Application. Do the same for :\Windows\System32\backgroundTaskHost.exe Confirm it, and the Cortona application is unable to execute.

You can check the result when Win-Logo-Key + R, entering taskmgr, to see the tasks that it is gone from there, and any related process with it. 

Since I do not know about other Security Suites, please refer to their respective functions to achieve it. It should be possible with any that offers such functionality as described above with Comodo. If you find that you wish to have Cortana running is beneficial, you can turn it on by reversing the process again.

With this, it is back to do some more learning, about Class Hierarchies.