Is there any way to uninstall Cortana?

[Windows Central Question]

is there any way to uninstall cortana?

It seems to be a memory hog , everything about this new OS seems to slow my machine to a crawl

 

[gpobernardo]

Re: is there any way to uninstall cortana?

What "machine" are you referring to? A laptop? A full desktop?

If you're referring to a PC, simply bring up your start menu/screen, then type "Cortana" - this should bring you a choice to click on "Cortana & Search Settings". Clicking on that will bring you to a page where you can disable Cortana - it's the very first toggle switch in there.

Should you have further questions, please don't hesitate to create a Windows Central account and to respond to this thread.

P.S.
Windows 10 has dramatically improved the speed of my three-year-old laptop, but I've got a 2.4 GHz quad core intel i5 processor and 8GB of RAM.