Although Android smartphone is convenient to manage files, sometimes you might desire to control your Android phone from the Windows computer.
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Published by Kunal Chowdhury
on 30 October, 2020
Although Android smartphone is convenient to manage files, sometimes you might desire to control your Android phone from the Windows computer. For example, you want to handle a document with a large screen, or it is inconvenient to use your smartphone, etc. Anyway, you just wonder how to manage your Android smartphone from Windows 10, right?
Rest assured. Multiple tools can give you support. Working with most Android data types, they all are excellent desktop managers for Android phones.

Supporting to synchronize many file types from the Android smartphone, OneDrive is more like a cloud assistant than a simple backup tool. Start with 5 GB of free cloud storage space on Microsoft. As long as you give it the right, it can not only back up your Android data automatically, but also edit, search, and share files online.

Amazingly, it will send notifications to you when a shared document is modified. Working with other Microsoft Office apps, it can manage your Office documents with backing up, viewing, and storing. Moreover, if you can jot a note via OneDrive, it will quickly sync the note. Then you can check for it from Windows 10.
If you make use of AirMore to manage your Android phone on Windows 10, there are 2 connecting ways available you can select, including scanning a temporary QR code and using radar. It is fast and secure. Besides, it supports streaming Android music, videos, and images to your PC as well as capture your device screens in 1 click.

In addition to working with the media data, it is capable of handling messages and contacts. Therefore, organizing your Android files on Windows 10 is not a big deal anymore.
Coolmuster Android Assistant can make your Android cell phone and the Windows PC become wonderful partners. It can swiftly transfer contacts, videos, text messages, photos, call logs and more between the phone and the computer. More importantly, the one-click backup feature can move all the files at a time.

That's all? Absolutely not, it supports you to deal with your files with different functions. You can edit your contacts, respond to text messages, create new albums, and so on. In a word, you can cope with various Android files on the PC without effort.
Vysor can mirror and control your Android mobile phone on the Windows 10 desktop at any time. It is straightforward to link your Android device to the Windows computer via USB. Furthermore, its pro version lets you enjoy more functions than the basic one.

Vysor Pro provides high-quality mirroring and allows you to connect the devices wirelessly. To assist you to manage your phone, it also supports to transfer files between phones and computers via drag and drop. More conveniently, you can view your Android smartphone with the full-screen mode clearly.
Your Phone Companion is a desktop application for Android smartphones and the computer with Windows 10 OS. It can help you swiftly access your phone on the computer, like putting your phone and the PC together. Thus, you can reply to your text messages, and make and receive phone calls on the computer without hassle.

Using it, you can receive the notifications of the Android device in time on the PC. Magically, you instantly get into your Android photos and the favorite mobile apps on your PC with the larger screen, keyboard, and mouse. You will feel relaxed that there is no need to hold the phone in your hand.
Have you decided on which one to choose? There is no doubt that every utility is effective to manage your Android smartphone from Windows 10. Each has different advantages, so you need to make a decision based on your real requirements.
Solution Architect & Former Microsoft MVP
Kunal Chowdhury is an enterprise solution architect and former multi-year Microsoft MVP. He is the author of three technical books: Windows Presentation Foundation Development Cookbook, Mastering Visual Studio 2017, and the Mastering Visual Studio 2019.
He publishes technical articles on Kunal-Chowdhury.com.