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Sometime back, I disabled Cortana completely and did some tweaks to stop telemetry under my Windows 10 laptop, but I can't really remember what I exactly did. Now I need to temporarily lend the laptop to someone without losing everything, but the person would like to have Cortana. Is there a way to undo everything I've done and get back Cortana? I've already tried the registry method to no avail.

EDIT: As far as I remember, I did not delete anything or make any serious changes in the Windows filesystem.

EDIT 2: I still have Windows search working; just no Cortana. Listing all packages in powershell says I still have Cortana installed

Microsoft.Windows.Cortana                   Microsoft.Windows.Cortana_1.8.12.15063_neutral_neutral_cw5n1h2txyewy
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Without knowing what you did in the first place, I suspect the only thing we can say would definitely (100%) work is a reinstall.

Having said that, though, creating a new user account for the person you're lending it to and having them log in to that account might work.

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