Since I installed Windows 10, I enjoyed finding the Virtual Assistant “Cortana”, a kind of artificial intelligence with voice recognition that can carry out some basic tasks on my computer. I found that Cortana does a better job of opening the Windows Control Panel through voice recognition than trying to type “Control Panel” in the search bar and wait about 5 minutes before the icon shows up. (Windows 10 indexing just doesn’t seem to do the trick yet.)
Well, I have no idea what happened, but Cortana’s interface just went bezerk. When I click in the search bar I no longer have a cursor, though I do seem to be able to type anyway.
![cortana-screenshot1](https://i0.wp.com/www.johnromanodorazio.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cortana-screenshot1-300x120.png?resize=300%2C120)
![cortana-screenshot](https://i0.wp.com/www.johnromanodorazio.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cortana-screenshot-187x300.png?resize=187%2C300)
![cortana-screenshot2](https://i0.wp.com/www.johnromanodorazio.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cortana-screenshot2-209x300.png?resize=209%2C300)
For anyone who has already used the Cortana interface, it will be obvious that it has gone bezerk. The interface is basically empty, gone! I have no cursor, and I only have a black empty interface. Looks to me more like a glitch in the graphical interface, as though everything is maybe behind this black area. Has any else encountered this glitch? It just started happening to me today.
I tried using the feedback module to send a bug report, but even there my cursor goes out of sight instead of wrapping to the next line! And I can’t include a custom screenshot, I have no idea why they have an “include screenshot” checkbox in the feedback area if it just takes a screenshot of the current screen (or does it use the last screenshot in the clipboard?)
![cortana-screenshot3](https://i0.wp.com/www.johnromanodorazio.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cortana-screenshot3-206x300.png?resize=206%2C300)
I have no idea why this was happening, but it seems to have fixed itself. I haven’t even rebooted the computer, but the Cortana interface just started working again.