There are two ways to go about this: one turns Cortana’s search bar into an app-sized icon, and the other removes it completely. I’ll show you how to do both.
- Right-click anywhere on the taskbar.
- Select Cortana > Show Cortana icon. Once done, it shrinks the “Ask me anything” bar down to the size of a normal icon, like this:
- To remove the bar completely, right click the taskbar again.
- Select Cortana > Hidden.
- To set Cortana’s search bar back to the default, right click the taskbar once more.
- Select Cortana > Show search box.
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