how to stop Cortana from talking during Windows setup

[gmandar 1]

Hello Guys,

I am deploying Windows 10 v1703 and wish to get rid of cortana talking through windows setup in my office environment (Cortana during the "Lets get your connected" step of OOBE).

I am referring below article what I  wish to get rid of:

https://www.windowscentral.com/windows-10-creators-update-features-cortana-setup-screens

I referred below link but no luck in getting any direction:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/customize/desktop/unattend/changed-answer-file-settings-for-windows-10-build-1703

 

As usual, any help is highly appreciated.

Thank you in advance for your time for reading this

[tale 0]

You should be able to add a RunSynchronousCommand to the unattend: cmd /c reg add HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE /v DisableVoice /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

That is supposed to disable Cortana during setup.

[gmandar 1]

Will it disable Cortana or Mute it?

[tale 0]

It should only disable Cortana for the OOBE initial setup.

[Selby 0]

I had the same issue but I found adding the SkipMachineOOBE = True in my unattended xml stopped it from happening.  I know this setting is meant to be deprecated but it still seems to work.

[gmandar 1]

Thanks tale &Selby for confirming. Will revert with my findings.

[anyweb 456]

All you have to do is set the following registry key

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Set value "DIsableVoice" under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE to 1 (DWORD) and Cortana will stop talking :-) 

via Michael Niehaus on Twitter

[ard1010 0]

Thanks anyweb. I was looking for a way to disable Cortana in windows 10 initial setup but at least with this registry tweak I can mute Cortana. It is great help when imaging multiple computers.

[SMoRZ3 0]

I too second adding that line to your unattend.xml to get rid of it. I had the same issue until that was added.