Alexa Stop!

[JonLP24]

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[Squinch]

1. Those things scare me. I just got a computer with Cortana. I tried taking it off. You can't.

I tried turning it off, you can't. Everywhere you turn, there's this creepy thing talking to you that you don't want talking to you.

I picture it like being the black-cloaked white-masked monster in "Scream."

[IndyJones]

3. Really, you can't?

I never use it and was wondering if I could delete it.

[uriel1972]

5. Cortona is one of the reasons I went back to Win8.1...

There is a way you can disable it, I'm told. How to Geek had an article, from memory. It's complicated and didn't really work for me.

[Squinch]

9. I'm told that the newest version is too embedded to be taken out entirely.

[Squinch]

8. Nope. You can turn it off where you find it, but I keep finding it in places I never expected to.

And all the while it is watching and listening and following and recording.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

10. How to Disable Cortana in Windows 10s Anniversary Update

https://www.howtogeek.com/265027/how-to-disable-cortana-in-windows-10/

[Squinch]

11. Thank you for this. I tried another registry fix I saw somewhere, and the damn thing kept

popping up regardless. I'll see if this one works.

[democratisphere]

2. Alexa apparently doesn't come with parental controls.

[IndyJones]

4. I unplug Alexa when

not in use.

[JonLP24]

12. The one thing I don't understand is whyAlexa

Would even have porn.

[Kablooie]

6. There is a woman named Alexa Seary and her life has become a hell.

[KT2000]

7. my brother told Alexa

to buy a BMW (w/ model name). Since the account is held by his wife she had to run to the computer to stop it. It was already processing the sale but for mechanical pencils!