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There is no Cortana in the taskbar or anywhere to activate it... When I go to the settings it says it is not available in my region or language, even though I am in the UK with English language.
How do I get the Cortana feature to work in Windows-10?

Prasanna
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MasudM
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Go to language center and change Cortana language so it wont be disabled because your device default language isn't supported by Cortana. To do so:

  1. Click Win button+S
  2. Search settings and go in to the settings center
  3. In the settings center search: search history and go to change search history settings. You can see it here: The settings center and what to search
  4. On the left (or right depends on your default language) click on: Language and change the search language as you can see in this picture: Windows Search Language Center

Hope it helps, it worked for me.

Ron Cohen
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Related Superuser post

Microsoft states that Cortana is available in the UK. Even if region, language and input are set to UK users are unable to get Cortana.

Also you can see whiteghost's reply in tomshardware.com which might solve your problem

You can however change your locale to US and get Cortana.

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First, Go to Control Panel > Clock,Language & Region > Language > Add language and add United States English as shown below

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Second, Go to PC Settings > Time & Language > Region & Language and set English(US) Set as default

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And also change the Region to United States

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Enjoy Cortana !!

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Manu
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Wow, after various attempts at enabling Cortana I found the answer by accident. When you first see Cortana it shows you some features and shows two options: Settings and Not Interested. When you click settings it will take you to another page with more options but then you cannot enable Cortana as it is "not available in my region". Today, by accident I clicked Not Interested, this took me to a page to actually setup Cortana. Some Microsoft Intern must have forgot to change the Button's text.

Edit: ...a few minutes later I realised I would probably never use Cortana so all this was pointless, but oh well now I can ask how the weather will be in some obscure country at 2am WITHOUT typing!

MasudM
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Cortana is only available in the USA at the moment. If you want to force it set your system region to the USA.

headkase
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