Also,
Cortana opens your searches through the Edge browser.
As said earlier
Cortana opens all searches using Microsoft Edge.
Not exact matches
In Windows 10, the Start button isn't just back — there's a «
Search the web and Windows» field that launches Microsoft's
Cortana assistant and a Task View button that provides an overview of all your
open windows and virtual desktop features.
When we click on the
search box,
Cortana will pop
open.
On a single device running Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise, use the local Group Policy Editor, gpedit.msc, to
open the policy Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components >
Search > Allow
Cortana and set it to Disabled.
We fixed an issue resulting in clicked
Cortana search results not
opening when typing using the MS Pinyin IME.
To
open Task View, simply click the Task View icon next to the
Cortana Search Box, or hit Windows key + Tab.
You can now
open Cortana on your PC and click on the music
search icon to have
Cortana listen and
search for the song that's playing.
Open Cortana by clicking the
Search Box or the
Cortana Icon.
On a single PC, use the local Group Policy Editor, gpedit.msc, to
open the policy Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components >
Search > Allow
Cortana and set it to Disabled.
Set up
Cortana on PC On your PC, set up
Cortana to receive and send SMS messages by doing the following: a.
Open Cortana by clicking the
search bar or
Cortana icon.
If
Cortana or Taskbar
search is not working,
open Task Manager > File menu > Run new task.
To shut down
Cortana in Windows 10 Pro simply type gpedit.msc in the
search box to
open the Group Policy Editor.
Then,
open Command Prompt by
searching for cmd in the
Cortana search box or hit WINKEY+R to launch the Run utility and type cmd and hit Enter.
Perhaps it says something about how
Cortana launches that I did not immediately realize that
Cortana could be
opened with the
search button.
On an Android phone,
open Google Play,
search for «
Cortana», and install the
Cortana Android app.
On an iPhone,
open the App Store,
search for «
Cortana», and install the
Cortana iPhone app from Microsoft.
If you'd like to be able to just bark commands at your PC,
open Cortana by clicking the
search field in the taskbar and select the Notebook icon in the left - side options pane.
All of that hinges on
Cortana knowing that it's going to
open in the Edge browser with the Bing
search engine, Microsoft claims.
To be fair, Microsoft has tried this before, assigning Edge and Bing as the default apps to
open up
Cortana search links.
To use Microsoft's example, if you
search for Pizza Hut in the
Cortana search bar, it'll
open the website.
By default,
Cortana opens links in the Microsoft Edge browser and performs
searches using the Microsoft Bing
search engine.
Or when you
search «catch me up on the election» in the
Cortana box, Microsoft Edge
opens to Bing, and a dynamic reading list is created with the latest election news for your Microsoft Edge reading list.
An Office icon would be placed right next to
Cortana, similar to the Task View button, which when clicked would
open the Hub much like how the
Cortana UI does, even making the
Cortana search bar turn to an «Office - orange» color that lets the user know they are in the Office Hub.
On Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise edition, you can use the local Group Policy Editor (Run > gpedit.msc), to
open the policy Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components >
Search > Allow
Cortana then set it to «disabled.»
In current versions of Windows 10,
Cortana summons web
search results by
opening the Edge browser.
Cortana will
open all
searches using Chrome.
Cortana, in the meantime, resorted to simply
opening up a browser
search far more often than Siri (and Google Now).
Step 4: Now
Cortana will
open the
search result in your default browser.
Among those features that may be modified or removed: Me Tile and Me Card; notifications for missed calls, messages and emails on contact tiles;
Cortana's ability to
search for apps, settings, email, text messages, contacts and QR Codes on the device; ability to
open apps through voice commands; and MDM functionality to prevent saving and sharing Office documents.
In recent weeks, Microsoft has been testing improvements to
Cortana, adding web
search results to the assistant's UI without needing to
open your browser, which Fast ring users can now experience:
You can use
Cortana to
open apps and games, power down your Xbox, take screenshots and
search the web, just to name a few examples.
When
Cortana misunderstands what you're trying to stay, she'll snap and
open up a Bing
search query, which is a little annoying when it's unintended.