Microsoft’s Cortana may have long lost the AI voice assistant battle to Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant, but it still remains a part of Windows 10. So if you don’t use Cortana at all and want to uninstall it from your Windows 10 computer, you have come to the right place. Because today, we will show you how to fully uninstall Microsoft Cortana from your Windows 10 PC using a simple, one-step process.
We have already written about how you can disable Cortana on Windows 10. So in this article, we will show you how to completely uninstall Microsoft’s Cortana voice assistant from Windows 10 using PowerShell. Unfortunately, you cannot uninstall Cortana from the Windows Settings or the Control Panel. We will also show you how to reinstall it on your computer just in case you have a change in mind and want to give it another shot in the future. So without further ado, let’s get going.
- Uninstall Cortana
- Reinstall Cortana
Steps to Uninstall Cortana
- To uninstall Cortana on your PC, you first need to open Windows PowerShell with admin privilege. To do that, right-click on the Start button and select “Windows PowerShell (Admin)” from the pop-up menu.
Steps to Reinstall Cortana
The Cortana app is available to download on the Microsoft Store, which means Windows 10 users can reinstall it on their devices whenever they want. So in the future, if Microsoft’s AI assistant becomes relevant again, which is highly doubtful, or gets new features you want to try out, just hop over to the Microsoft Store and reinstall the app.
