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respond to the texts with the luxury of a full mouse and keyboard

for editing, using your phone as a cellular antenna.

To pull this off, install the Cortana app for Android on your phone.
In that app, choose → → “Cross device.” Ensure that all the

notifications you want to receive (missed calls, incoming
messages, low battery) are turned on.

Now your Android phone’s notifications pop up in the Action

Center. You can actually click or tap to reply to texts, although you
can’t place calls and can’t initiate a text-message conversation.
Maybe in Windows 11.

Network & Internet

The fourth major Settings page offers all the tools you need to get online.

Most of them are described in Chapter 12, but here are some key panels:

Status

Voilà: the new Network Neighborhood (as Microsoft used to call it). Check

your connection, fiddle with your sharing settings, dive into the
troubleshooter.

Wi-Fi

Turn Wi-Fi on or off, see what hotspot you’re connected to, view a list of
available hotspots.

Ethernet

This screen does little more than tell you whether or not you’re connected
to a network with an Ethernet cable—and offer links to other networking
control panels.

Dial-Up