30 great commands when using Cortana on Windows 10

In this article I will guide you in detail how to use Cortana on Windows 10 , in addition, I will summarize the most useful commands when using Cortana that you should try.

#first. What is Cortana?

Cortana is a 'virtual assistant' developed by Microsoft, supported on Windows 10 operating systems and on Windows Phone operating systems.

If you've ever used the Siri feature of the iOS operating system, you just understand Cortana it is similar.

The remarkable advantage of Cortana is that you can manipulate your mouth, meaning you just need to speak to tell the computer to do what you want.

For example as simple as you want to turn on / off Wifi, or turn on / off Bluetooth…. such as. You don't need to use your mouse to set it up anymore, but instead you can tell your computer to let it do it automatically. Sounds quite interesting, though.

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#2. How to use Cortana on Windows 10

Normally, activating Cortana on Windows 10 is very simple, if you do not know how to activate and use Cortana, you can review this tutorial .

And in this article I will share with you a tip to help Cortana sound more sensitive.

Implementation: Right-click the LOA icon under the Taskbar => select Recording devices to enter the settings.

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Window Sound appears => please click Microphone => choose Set Default to set default for it. Next, double-click on the Microphone line to adjust the volume.

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You switch to tab Levels => in line Microphone and drag the slider to the right to increase the volume a little higher.

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# 3. A list of 30+ useful commands when using Cortana

No.	THE COMMAND	MAIN FUNCTION
first	Turn on / off Wi-Fi	Turn on / off Wi-Fi
2	Turn on / off Bluetooth.	Turn on / off Bluetooth
3	Turn on / off Airplane Mode	Turn on / off airplane mode
4	What's the weather like? Or: What will the weather be like in two days? Or: Is it going to rain tomorrow?	Ask the weather
5	Launch Mozilla Firefox Or: Open Facebook.com	Command to run a program (for example FireFox) or open a web page
6	Take a note Or: Note it down	This is a command to make a note in OneNote
7	What's 35 times 16? Or: What's 23 minus two?	Perform simple calculations
8	What is five miles in kilometers? Or: How many teaspoons in a cup?	Unit conversion
9	What's the definition of 'table'? Or: Do you know what 'gargantuan' means?	Define a word
ten	How's my schedule looking? Or: What do I have next week?	See your event schedule at a glance.
11	Add dentist appointment to Thursday at 3 pm Or: Schedule phone call with Lisa tomorrow at 5 am	Add an appointment to your calendar
twelfth	Move my dentist appointment to Friday	Move an appointment
13	Remind me to call Timmy at 2 pm Or: Remind me to ask about vacation time when I talk to Hung	Set up reminders based on time, person, or location
14	Set an alarm for 9 am Or: Wake me up in an hour	Commands to set alarms
15	Show me my alarm	Review my alarm
16	What day is Christmas? Or: When is Labor Day?	Inquire about major holidays
17	Find pictures from last week. Or: Find documents from May 2015. Or: Find videos from yesterday	Search for photos, videos, documents . on your device from a specific time frame.
18	Can you find a document called Blog Chia Se Kien Thuc? Or: Can you find a picture called 'favicon'?	Search files by name
19	How tall is Harrison Ford? Or: Who is the CEO of Google? Or: When was the Lincoln Memorial built?	View basic search results, such as information about public metrics, companies, locations, and pop culture in Cortana's window (without opening a browser window)
20	How long will it take me to get to [Location / Location]? Or: What is traffic like on the way to [Location / Location]? Example: Show me a map of downtown Ha Noi	Show me a map of the Location
21	What was the score of the last Detroit Tigers game?	Look up sports scores?
22	Play [artist / song / genre / playlist / album] Or: Shuffle the music	Music control in Groove Music app.
23	Pause song Or: skip track	Music control
24	What is this song?	Identify which song is playing.
25	How do you say 'dog' in French? Or: How do you say 'how are you' in Japanese	Translate a word or phrase into a different language
26	What's 400 reais in Euros? Or: What's 1,000 yen in US dollars?	Currency conversion
27	What time is it in Los Angeles? What time is it in Thailan?	Find current time in a city or Country
28	What song is this?	Ask Cortana about the song title, the singer .

# 4. Epilogue

Okey, so I have shared with you 30 very useful commands when using Cortana on Windows 10 operating system.

I will update to add new commands when available, if you know any other useful commands, please share them with everyone by commenting below this article.

Cortana

Lesley Montoya

Update 11 May 2021

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