HOW TO ENABLE WINDOWS 10 CORTANA ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD

The most highlighted feature of the newly launched Windows 10 is Windows 10 cortana. For those who are unfamiliar, Cortana is the digital personal assistant. You can ask her anything like weather updates, sing you song, tell you jokes, send email, change settings and so on.

According to Microsoft,

Cortana is your clever new personal assistant.

Cortana will help you find things on your PC, manage your calendar, track packages, find files, chat with you, and tell jokes. The more you use Cortana, the more personalized your experience will be.

If Cortana is not supported in your country then you have to wait until Microsoft launches Windows 10 cortana in your country, and if you don’t want to be in a queue and want to use it without waiting then you are at a very correct place.

To check if Cortana is available in your region or not, click on the search bar and type “Cortana”. Turn the Cortana feature on, if it is not available you will see “Cortana isn’t supported in the region and language you’ve selected.”

 ENABLE WINDOWS 10 CORTANA, IF NOT AVAILABLE IN YOUR COUNTRY

Windows 10 Cortana is available only in some countries, if Cortana is not supported in your region then follow this tutorial to use it right now without being in a queue.

Click on  “Input method” on the right side of the taskbar, there you will see a list of available input methods. Click on“language preferences”.

A new window will open where you can select your region and language. Select United States in the region section andEnglish (United States) in the language section.

NOW YOU CAN ENABLE CORTANA, TO ENABLE IT-

Search again for Cortana and select “Cortana and search settings”, switch the Cortana On. Sign in with an active Microsoft account or create a new Microsoft account and then you can access all the features of the Windows 10 Cortana. Just say “Hey Cortana”.

HOW TO FIX WINDOWS 10 TASKBAR, START MENU, CORTANA NOT WORKING ISSUES

Recently Microsoft has launched Windows 10 and they are offering the upgrade for free to their old clients, click the link below to upgrade your Windows PC to the latest version.

Upgrade your Windows PC to all new Windows 10.

Windows 10 was launched in over 190 countries and is installed on over 100 million PCs. Despite all the technical efforts there are some small bugs in the newly launched Windows 10. In this post I’ll tell you “How to fix Taskbar, Start Menu, Cortana issues in the Windows 10”.

Also read : How to fix Brightness Control Not Working Issue In Windows 10.

HOW TO FIX TASKBAR, START MENU, CORTANA NOT WORKING ISSUE

Other websites are providing many methods and claim that those will solve the bug, I have also tried those methods but didn’t worked for me. Here @ Kick-It-Easy you will learn about two methods that will surely fix this bug permanently.

METHOD 1 :-

USING POWERSHELL

Step 1: Right click on Start Menu button and open Command Prompt as an administrator.

Step 2: Type in powershell and hit enter.

Step 3: Paste the following Command in the Powershell(previosuly was Command Prompt) window and hit enter.

Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}

Step 4: Wait for the process to finish and complete the command

Step 5: When it finishes try clicking on Taskbar, Start Menu, Cortana, hopefully they will work by now. If not, use the next method.

METHOD 2 :-

EASIEST METHOD

Feeling lazy, huh ? Don’t worry take help of a small file. It will do it for you.

Step 1 : Download this file » 10services_default.bat (62 KB)

Step 2 : Open the download file as an administrator.

Step 3 : Wait for 10 seconds, after 10 seconds it will start working

Step 4 : When the working process is finished, close every Window and Restart your PC

Step 5 : Now try clicking on Taskbar, Start Menu, Cortana. They will surely work as normal by now.

YOU WILL NOTICE, THE WIFI OF YOUR LAPTOP IS NOT WORKING ANYMORE. TO FIX THIS ISSUE, FOLLOW THESE STEPS :

Step 1 : Open the Device manager 
» To open the Device manager, Right Click on This PC and hit on Manage.

Step 2 : Click on Device manager (see the list on the top left corner)

Step 3 : Now expand the Network adapter list and uninstall all your WiFi adapters (right click and hit uninstall).

Step 4 : Once you have uninstalled all the available WiFi adapter softwares, now look for the option “Scan for hardware changes” and click on it.

Step 5 : Once the scanning process is done. Your Network adapters will be installed again and your WiFi will start working again.

METHOD 3 :-

Adding a new user will always be a wiser option. Adding a new local user in Windows 10 will help to get rid of the taskbar and cortana issues. Read this post to learn how to create a new user account.
Add a new user account in Windows 10

Hey Kicker! If you liked this post share it with your friends and subscribe to Kick-It-Easy to get instant updates.

Recommended article – How to change start menu and taskbar colors