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Cortana Reminders not working in Windows 10/11 [Fixed]

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Updated onOctober 4, 2023

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Cortanais a digital assistant that supports both Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 10 on your PC. Cortana is able to do many things including managing and providing you reminders.

To avoid forgetting important things, you can just command Cortana and it sets a reminder likeHey Cortana! Remind me to send the email at 7 PMand she will set a reminder for you.

On the other hand, no innovation is entirely perfect. While Cortana reminders are explicitly awesome, they have some issues such as:

Apart from these, there might be issues where you can’t figure out why your Windows are not working. Even after the reminder is not, we don’t get any notification regarding and sometimes we get the notification when we next set it up. As a solution, there is something that you can try and fix this issue.

What to do if Windows 10 Cortana reminders stop working

Table of contents:

1. Check Cortana’s Reminders section

You need to check is if you really have saved any reminders or not. To do that, just open Cortana and then open the reminders section. This will show you the list of reminders that you have set.

If the list is empty, then there were no reminders set at all.

2. Turn the Calendar on

If you are not receiving notifications based on the date and time, it is a possibility that your reminders calendar is off.

Go to Calendar, search for the settings. In the display, go to Remind me, and tick the checkbox besideReminders.

3. Check the antivirus configuration

It’s already known that Windows 10 features and third-party antivirus programs can sometimes interfere.

Consequently, it is possible that your antivirus has actually disabled Cortana. To see if that’s indeed the case, disable your antivirus for a couple of minutes, and see if Cortana works now.

On the other hand, we recommend using an antivirus with little to no impact upon the system configuration or processes. BullGuard would be just the best solution in this case.

With BullGuard, not only do you get the toughest protection against malware; the tool is also designed to optimize PC performance and processes, which it does from the first minutes after installation.

It’s worth mentioning that, atthe latest tests in the industry, BullGuard scored almost impeccably when it comes to interference with other processes that run simultaneously with a full system scan, for instance. And it definitely scored better than other competitors on the market.

Couple this with the top scores at detection rates and protecting against malware, and you get the perfect antivirus program.

4. Check your Account Settings

This is necessary since, in the case of person-based reminders, you might have accidentally deleted the contact or used an account without the contact’s name.

5. Turn Location on

When it comes to a location-based reminder, the error occurs because either you are not connected to the internet or your location is off, so this solution should be helpful.

6. Check Regional settings

First things first, let’s make sure Cortana is supported in your region. Because if it’s not, well, you won’t be able to use it.

This is the list of supported regions and languages:

If you were able to use Cortana seamlessly before the update, and now it’s not available, there’s a great chance that something with your Region settings is wrong.

Either you have installed an unsupported language by mistake or the installation changed the settings on its own. In both cases, you can resolve this issue in a few easy steps.

7. Run the Apps Troubleshooter

Although Cortana comes integrated with Windows 10, it still counts as an app. This is why we can use Windows 10’s built-introubleshooterto resolve potential problems with it.

8. Reset Cortana

9. TweakRegistry

There’s a chance something inside your system actually disabled Cortana. So this would be the best way to re-enable Cortana.

10. Run theSFC

TheSFCscan is a command-line tool that scans your computer for potential problems and resolves them (if possible). So, maybe it will be helpful in this case.

11. Run DISM

This is an alternative to the previous solution. DISM stands for Deployment Image Servicing and Management, and as its name says, it deploys the system image all over again, including Cortana.

If you still experience any other errors other than those regarding the reminders, feel free to contact us in the comment section so that we will help you solve them and add them up to the above list.

If you want to read more about Cortana, see our dedicatedCortana section.

For even more useful articles, go to ourWindows 10 Troubleshooting Hub.

Cortana Reminders not working in Windows 10/11 [Fixed]#

What to do if Windows 10 Cortana reminders stop working#

1. Check Cortana’s Reminders section#

2. Turn the Calendar on#

3. Check the antivirus configuration#

4. Check your Account Settings#

5. Turn Location on#

6. Check Regional settings#

7. Run the Apps Troubleshooter#

8. Reset Cortana#

9. TweakRegistry#

10. Run theSFC#

11. Run DISM#