MSMG ToolKit

Good morning.
With reference to post # 15308 I made a new procedure:

Windows System App Removal
[4] Remove> [1] Remove Windows component> [3] System Apps
[E] Content Delivery Manager
[J] Map Control
[L] OneDrive Desktop Client
[N] People Bar
[P] Retail Demo Content
[W] Windows Mixed Reality
[X] Xbox Game Callable UI

Windows App Removal
[4] Remove> [1] Remove Windows component> [4] Windows Apps-1
I have individually selected all the apps except [E] Cortana App

Windows App Removal
[4] Remove> [1] Remove Windows component> [5] Windows Apps-2
[1] Windows Store
[2] Xbox App
[3] Xbox Indentity Provider

Apply Menu with Tweaks.
[5] Customize> [8] Apply Tweaks
[A] Disable Cortana App
[D] Disable automatic Downloading and Installing 3rd Party Apps


At the end I tested the ISO on a virtual machine and the search on the PC works regularly,
evidently there are some problems in removing Cortana App.
Thanks
p.s. In Toolkit version 9.4.2 Cortana App was in the system Apps and was never removed.

 

Problems removing coratana app are in V2004 or V1909 ?

 

I use S.O. W10 2004-Build 19041.264
in my opinion cortana should be disabled but not removed, the problem is that the icon remains in the start menu, if it could be eliminated it would be better.

 

@MIMMO61 @MSMG
Have tested with final 2004 (19041.264) and search does not work if I remove Cortana with ToolKit. However I can remove Cortana with CCleaner and search does continue to work.

So I recommend using CCleaner to remove Cortana until ToolKitHelper and/or ToolKit are updated to remove Cortana.

 

I am using v1909,i read somewhere that search would work at least on file explorer but in my case didnt happen and also most important the Control Panel crashed. Anyway glad to know it is fixed in v2004, i ll try it in the near future.
For now i am happy with 1909 since i resolved the issues.

Sorry for the late reply.
I used a RemovePkgsList. So i guess removing the app completely is causing the problems.
Disabling it, as i already did after checking, from Customize-Tweaks menu doesn't seem to affect it and should work fine afterwards.
Good luck.

 

In previous versions of Toolkit, the Cortana App was disabled. I never removed it because it was in the system apps, however I don't think it is not advisable to remove it.
With disabling, the icon in the start menu should also disappear.

 

This means that in v1909 If i remove cortana will break control panel ? , I use classic shell to seach ?

 

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Cortana Remove

A Mod for ReMoving Cortana Automated @ User Account Craetion Clean Install First Start with no (MayBe) Breaks . . .

Craete a CortanaRemove.bat and place following in :

PowerShell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Command "& {Start-Process PowerShell -ArgumentList '-NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Command ""Get-AppxPackage *Microsoft.549981C3F5F10* -AllUsers| Remove-AppxPackage""' -Verb RunAs}";

Copy CortanaRemove.bat into MSMG Toolkit Moundet Iso Windows Folder .

Craete a CortanaRemove.reg and place following in :

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce]
"CortanaRemove.bat"="C:\\Windows\\CortanaRemove.bat"

Import CortanaRemove.reg into MSMG Toolkit Moundet Iso Registry .

For DisableSearchBoxSuggestions for Web Bing Content in Taskbar Create DisableSearchBoxSuggestions.reg and place following in :

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer]
"DisableSearchBoxSuggestions"=dword:00000001

So before Craete a User after Clean Install Cortana will be Removed by Windows Legal workflow for all Users . . . but can be ReInstalled also by Windows Legal workflow .

Seems MSMG Toolkit is more then Accurat by Removing Windows Apps so There Problems for SearchFunction ! ?

For Hiden Cortana TaskBar Dot follow winaero.com/blog/hide-cortana-button-taskbar-windows-10

Tested on Windows 2004 19041.264 RTM

 

Msmg tell please when this bug will fixed, some people in the forum have the same problem, looks like the VCRuntime package don't work fine

 

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