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Accio Harry Potter spell book 
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Just read this[^] that purports to know how to kill Cortana on Windows 10 Anniversary Edition.
May be useful to some.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Some of us are luckier than others - I am a Brit, living in Cyprus, and they don't yet have a version for Cyprus, so not installed. 
However, the page has been bookmarked for future use, thanks very much.
As a footnote, the Cypriot dialect is considerably different from that of mainland Greece*. With a population of under a million, they may not bother.
* It has been reported that some time ago when the Cyprus president, with a very rural accent, met the Greek president, with a strong Cretan accent, a translator was required. 
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Chris C-B wrote: Some of us are luckier than others - I am a Brit, living in Cyprus, and they don't yet have a version for Cyprus, so not installed.
All I know about Cyprus (besides a few people from there), is that Georgiou Panayiatou (spelling?) is from there and as George Michael the Poms made him famous.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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fyi: I upgraded to Win 10 Pro a few weeks ago, and I tried the Group Policy edit technique described in the link you cite, and it just didn't work: Cortana appeared in the Task Manager no matter what, and killing the process from the Task Manager banished it for only a few seconds.
I've also tried using WinAero Tweaker to turn off Cortana, but that hasn't worked either.
What did work was an earlier technique published on WinAero: [^]. If you use this technique, I strongly suggest you think carefully about the warning provided in red on this page.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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"For most users, this means that Cortana will be removed from Windows 10 permanently. Think twice before you will continue."
The missus has trained me well; I take out the rubbish (Leftpond: "garbage") autonomically, so I don't even have to think once.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yeah, women have that way with us don't they?
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Is there an opinion expressed there ?
Sergey Tkachenko's, "labor of love," web-site, WinAero, is probably the most technically sound, most currently informed, of any web-site reporting on Win10 glitches, internals, work-arounds, etc. He has not, like Thurrot and others, been co-opted by MS ... yet.
While I am aware you frequently dump your personal rubbish on the Lounge, I suggest you not cast aspersions on the work of other people who are making real contributions to the state of knowledge.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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WTF?
I have WinAero installed on all my post-weven machines, and will continue to install it on new machines.
I suggest you focus less on jerking your knees, and more on reading what people actually say.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Looking at the source code they are working with the registry keys involved.
Adding and removing full access permmisions.
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Yes, even if the Group Policy setting technique works for you on Win Pro, registry settings will be changed. Any setting you alter by any means is going to change the Registry.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Hm, another interesting thing is it appears they are mounting the install.wim file.
I have not looked at the Win 10 OPK so not fully sure what they are doing here. Perhaps just getting a list of packages.
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OK Here is a bonus one:
ANwwWA vNMTVWA (6,7)
Hint: A lot of upsies and downsies
Is that like den2k88's job?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
modified 22-Aug-16 10:30am.
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It looks a lot like how I greeted my coworkers today, my first day of work after 30 days off.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Littel Birdsel 
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Very close! : )
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Without the black and white im screwed :/
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Does it work in another browser on the same PC? If not, it sounds like a DNS issue. Try nslookup www.site.com from a command-prompt.
If it works in another browser, does it work in safe mode[^] in Firefox? If so, it's probably an add-on.
If it doesn't work in safe mode, does it work in a new Firefox profile[^]? If so, you could try deleting any cookies associated with that site.
If that doesn't solve it, then you'll have to define "not working". 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Same in Edge... Lets have a look in Chrome...
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Gold Silver Bronze
1: English: 87 83 77
2: Mandarin: 26 18 26
3: Russian: 20 22 23
4: Spanish: 20 13 17
5: German: 19 11 2
6: French: 13 22 24
7: Japanese: 12 8 21
8: Dutch: 11 14 7
9: Korean: 11 6 11
10: Italian: 8 12 8
11: Portuguese: 7 6 7
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What about hair colour and shoe size?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Because those arent demographics.
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FYI Hungarian/Hungary should be 11th with 8 3 4.
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Some Hungarians only speak gin.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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