Cortana is constantly running in the background, using about 30-40mb RAM. I just thought I'd let you guys know. It also seems to run a different process called something in the likes of 'Cortana Application Launcher' every so often. Don't exactly remember. At first I would kill it with task manager. To see it immediately starts back up whenever I close it. So I used 'open file location' to take me to it's folder, and I spent about ten minutes trying to end the application and quickly change the name of the folder. Eventually it worked. Not %100 sure if this is a permanent solution, though.
I believe cortana is the engine that does the file search now as well so like when you hit superkey then type this may be what it is. I know they have cortana heavily integrated.
to test give it a shot hit the superkey and start typing you will see the process cortana go up on usage, What you are disabling is the voice assistant.
Funnily enough, the EXE that that makes the search bar works is called "Cortana". the virtual assistance if disabled will still be disabled. nothing is listening in. if you go on task manager and end "Cortana", try using the search bar again. as soon as you use the search bar, "Cortana" shows up on task manager again. I'm pretty sure if you do what some people who are paranoid did, and uninstall "Cortana" I'm pretty sure the search function built on to the start menu will break.
everytime i attempt to use start i noticed attempt to connect to ms server 204.79.197.200:443 TCP obviously i blocked it. i recommend adding this to your firewall (not windows one) and disable ipv6
My main OS is linux for now on but i want to install windows for gaming.So my question is should i install windows 10 for gaming only or should i stick on 8?
I would go with 10 since directx12 looks promising. I used to run linux as my main. But then I realized I spend most of my time gaming, so switching back and forth was a hassle. I hope vulkan does well
This whole built in spyware crap is really pissing me off. I bring data home from work a lot of the time. Bioinformatics data needs to stay 100% confidential if you're going to use it for my lab's projects. The NIH guidelines specify this is only OK if I have a private and encrypted database/server. Not to mention, get the hell out of my personal business! Not going to use a system with built in spyware. This was Microsoft's last chance to hold onto me but this is the last straw. As soon as the vulcan API takes off, and if it makes gaming a lot easier on Linux, that will be the last excuse I've got not to switch over to Linux.
