At the edge of tweaking
Microsoft is releasing a refined look for the UI of Cortana. It will be available in all countries. It was previously available to Windows Insiders, but now the update reached the stable branch.
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Cortana is a virtual assistant bundled with Windows 10. Cortana appears as a search box or an icon on the taskbar and comes with tight integration with the Search feature in Windows 10. Also, Cortana is integrated with the Microsoft Edge browser. You might want to disable this integration. Here is how it can be done.
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New versions of Windows often add new text-to-speech voices. Windows Vista added Anna which was retained up to Windows 7. Windows 8 also had new voices, David, Zira and Hazel. Windows 10 features a set of additional voices which you can use with Narrator and Cortana.
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Signing out of Cortana on your device stops Cortana’s data collection and use on that device and clears the interests and data on that device, but signing out won’t clear the data that’s already saved in the Notebook. In this article, we will see how to delete the collected data from Cortana in Windows 10.
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Cortana is a virtual assistant bundled with Windows 10. Cortana appears as a search box or an icon on the taskbar and comes with tight integration with the Search feature in Windows 10. Signing in to Cortana with your Microsoft account allows it to keep track of what interests you, save your favorite places to its Notebook, collect notifications from other devices, and sync your data between all your devices with Cortana enabled. Continue reading "Sign out from Cortana in Windows 10"
Recent Windows 10 versions come with a new Cortana feature - taskbar tidbits. It allows Cortana to not only remind you of your planned events, appointments, and give you suggestions, but also provide you with various thoughts, tips and greetings right in the search box on the taskbar. For example, Cortana can greet you "Good Morning!" via the taskbar. If you are not happy with this feature, it is easy to disable it.
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Cortana is a virtual assistant bundled with Windows 10. Cortana appears as a search box or an icon on the taskbar and comes with tight integration with the Search feature in Windows 10. In recent builds of the OS, you can make Cortana listen to your voice commands when you press the Win+C keys. Here is how it can be done.
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It is possible now to connect Google's services like Gmail and Calendar to Cortana on Windows 10. This will allow you to use Cortana to quickly access your messages, contacts and calendar events. Here is how to configure this feature.
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If you have been following Winaero regularly, you might be familiar with a new floating Cortana feature available in recent Windows 10 builds. Reportedly, a new UI for the taskbar flyout of Cortana is coming to the OS.
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Cortana is a digital assistant bundled with Windows 10. You can ask Cortana to look up information using your speech. The Redmond software giant added a number of new features for Cortana in the upcoming Fall Creators Update. One of them is the ability to restart, shut down, lock your PC and sign out from your user account.
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