I am also not aware of any way to get rid of it in a normal way. However if you are comfortable with regedit.exe, you can set/create a DWORD value named AllowCortana with a value of 0

Marty: Does the name of the folder in which you keep your audio files and play lists on the D drive, have the same name as it did when it was located on the c drive? Dave

Jim: I use the G U I Dave

 James: The computer I am using is running the latest version of Windows 10, with the latest updates, JAWS 2021. Following your last post, I used the I F W create recovery boot disk. I chose to

Hi Monica, in addition to the F7 hot key: you could use the hot key Control+F7 to jump to the next proofreading error. If Microsoft Word found one a context menu opens with suggestions. Search the

I can say, though, that I am actually heartened that a serious and spontaneous discussion of backup media has occurred, period. One of the dumbest things that many computer owners continue to persist

 Brian: I agree with everything you wrote, one thousand and one percent Dave

Richard's statement made me pause too. Conventional hard disk drives have been around since the mid 1980s and have gotten better, more reliable, and less expensive during that time. They are much more

Juan. I am afraid, and this is a personal thing of course, that the only way it can be closed is for you to go to task manager, press k until you encounter it, then press delete. I've

Well said!

HI All, I have this weird window that is called kortana where it has a edit box to type stuff to her, and a voice button to enable speaking to her. I can’t seem to get rid of it though, it

Um, why these weird stats? \ My current rig has 64gb ram, 1tb ssd, i9 10900k, 10-core cpu, and a 4tb 7200rpm hdd for backup/other storage. I also have a nvidia rtx3080 that I use for machine

Thank you to everyone who answered this thread. Thanks to your notes, I was successfully able to use it. Sincerely, Monica

Hi, I concur with Brian and others who pointed out that it is important to think about purposes of getting a new computer and choose specs based on them. I myself have settled on a ThinkPad for the

- This is the first and primary question anyone planning to purchase a computer should be asking. I have seen far too many of my clients who were sold grossly overspecced systems for what they intend

if I were to configure a new computer, I would tend to copy Randy's selections, but include an internal video and sound card, and maybe purchase a couple of external SSD drives.

- I really do not understand this statement, and I say that as a professional computer tech. I personally prefer SSDs for OS drives just due to the speed factor, but definitely not for reliability or

David, There are things about computers you fundamentally don't understand, and I can prove this by reposting messages you've put up on other lists that indicate you think

Dave, Do you use the GUI version of IFW or the CLI version? Thanks, Jim Weiss jimweiss72@...

ridiculous. Nobody reasonable would need such a machine for home use, ever. My suggestion is to ignore this post entirely, pointless. Cheers -- *** “The most important thing in life is not the