9. Get assistance from Cortana

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Cortana is an exciting feature of Windows 10 that can really help you to do things more efficiently. Touted as “your personal assistant,” Cortana can monitor your online activity and provide helpful reminders. Cortana interacts with Bing Search to locate information, and also enables you to conduct searches and perform tasks on your computer by giving verbal commands.

The sidebar “Hey, Cortana!” in Chapter 1, “Get started using Windows 10,” introduced Cortana. If you’ve been using Windows 10 for a while, you might have already experimented with Cortana as a verbal ...

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