Windows 10: Clicking the Network icon in System Tray opens "Network Status" instead of "Show Available...

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    Sometime within the past few months, a very standard behavior suddenly changed on my Windows 10 laptop. I am not willing to reinstall Windows just to fix this problem, so I am hoping someone can point me to a Registry key or some other low-level setting that might revert the behavior to its normal one. When I left-click the Network icon in the System Tray, instead of it popping up a menu list of WiFi access points to connect to, it opens the window you would normally see if you click Settings -> Network and Internet -> Status The right-click behavior is unchanged: It displays a men

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