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Can't Click on Cortana (Windows 10)
Mr Khan
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Is what it sounds like. I can see the bar that says "Ask me anything," but it's completely unresponsive when i try to click it, which is annoying because it's very convenient for finding the more obscure apps i like to use like the snipping tool or stickynotes. An unexpected glitch when work switched my laptop with somebody else's (harddrive swap), but i can't figure out how to make it work.
Reddit told me to do this:
Tried the first one, but it spat me back a different error that I don't recall.
Anybody run into this before?
Reddit told me to do this:
Try these from an Administrator cmd prompt
Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
sfc /scannow
Tried the first one, but it spat me back a different error that I don't recall.
Anybody run into this before?
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Also, go to the control panel (right click on the Start menu to find it easily), click on Troubleshooting, then System and Security, and finally Search and Indexing. You might have to run it as an administrator, which it will suggest if it fails.
Silly thing about the timing of this thread, i won't get a chance until Thursday. We're doing a summit offsite, and since it's the opposite direction from where i live, vis-a-vis work, they're letting me work from home when i'm not needed at the summit.
The two seem to be one in the same. On my functioning copy of Windows 10 at home, hitting Windows also puts the cursor in Cortana, much as hitting Cortana opens a field the same size as the start menu. I think at work the cursor doesn't appear.
Cortana isn't available everywhere.
Windows has released a windows taskbar troubleshooter you can download to try and fix it.
It didn't work for me, but you might get better luck and/or more info.
I'll try to find the fix that actually did work for me when I get home from work.
Start Menu Troubleshooter: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12385/windows-10-troubleshoot-problems-opening-start-menu-cortana
Click the 'Try the troubleshooter' link to download it.
Get-AppXPackage | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register “$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml”}and then restart.It re-registers all of the metro apps (of which cortana and the taskbar are)
go to C:\Windows\SystemApps and check that \Microsoft.Windows.Cortana_cw5n1h2txyewy\ doesn't have DISABLED_ at the start of the name. If it does, just remove it.
Tomorrow i'll try everyone's advice on my work computer.
If you're in an enterprise environment the GPO to disable Cortana normally does the DISABLED_ thing.
Solved!
This worked on the original release, but it breaks apps even more as of 1511, and still does not work right in 1607.
You can try to create a new user profile and see if Cortana is working there. If so, copy your data over from the old user account.
Installing 1607 overtop of your current install is also easy. Download the Media Creation Tool and creates an ISO. Once you do, mount the ISO and open an administrator command prompt. Switch to that drive and type
setup.exe /dynamicupdate disable /showoobe none /telemetry disable
It will go through the process it did with the anniversary update, and hopefully restore anything broken.