How to permanently disable and remove Cortana. Remove Cortana from the taskbar. Microsofts version of a virtual assistant. This video will overview removing the software via registry editor, powershell, or the group policy editor. Also how to remove Cortana from the task bar and disable it on startup.
One way to Uninstall Cortana is with the powershell:
Get-AppxPackage -allusers Microsoft.Windows.Cortana | Remove-AppxPackage
If you're going to do this is recommend you use a non-Microsoft browser, like Firefox or Chome. As Cortana is heavy integrated in the Edge web browser.
