Cortana Personal assistant Cortana was realized in the Windows 8 as an application. With the realize of the new version of the operating system Cortana became a part of the system. Even though, the personal assistant is not available in Russian now, an expert needs to understand what kind of artefacts can be found during the analysis. Information about the usage of the digital personal assistant is stored in the databases in the ESE format – IndexedDB.edb and CortanaCoreDb.dat, which are located in the following catalogs: \Users\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.Cortana_xxxx\AppData\Ind