FEBRUARY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 99Microsoft has made it harder to enable local
accounts, however. The language and the UI to do
so appears to change somewhat randomly. If a local
account is what you want, however, disconnecting
from the Internet seems to help immensely.
Likewise, it’s up to you whether you want to enable
Cortana. Cortana and Windows Search are now
separate, and Cortana is far less important than she
once was. But here’s a reason to keep Cortana around:
you can actually launch Amazon’s Alexa via Cortana.
You’re also free to fiddle with the privacy settings (of
course, you change these in Windows proper, as well).Though you’re free to configure
these privacy settings as you
see fit, you can also take the
time to adjust them laterFEBRUARY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 99Microsoft has made it harder to enable local
accounts, however. The language and the UI to do
so appears to change somewhat randomly. If a local
accountis whatyouwant,however,disconnecting
fromthe Internet seems to help immensely.
Likewise, it’s up to you whether you want to enable
Cortana. Cortana and Windows Search are now
separate, and Cortana is far less important than she
once was. But here’s a reason to keep Cortana around:
you can actually launch Amazon’s Alexa via Cortana.
You’re also free to fiddle with the privacy settings (of
course, you change these in Windows proper, as well).Though you’re free to configure
these privacy settings as you
see fit, you can also take the
time to adjust them later