How to add direct Control Panel access in Windows 11 desktop Your email has been sent Since the release of the Windows 10 Creators Update in 2017, Microsoft has systematically marginalized the ...

If you often open the Control Panel to access various tools and options, then you can add All Tasks and Disk Management to it on your Windows 11/10 computer so that you can access more features from ...

Due to storage considerations, Windows doesn't enable System Protection by default. That means you'll need to turn it on manually. And even today, configuring, enabling, or using System Restore still ...

Control Panel has been around since the days of Windows 95, allowing us to configure every tiny aspect of Windows. However, in the last decade, especially since the release of Windows 11, Microsoft ...

Since the debut of Windows 8 in 2012, Microsoft has been eager to replace the aged Control Panel with the newer Settings app. The transition so far has been slow and gradual. Based on a couple of ...

If you’ve been keeping up on your Windows updates, odds are good that you installed Microsoft’s October 2020 series of tweaks and fixes—assuming you weren’t blocked from doing so. One big change that ...

After reading last week’s post on restoring the classic All Programs menu in Windows 7, reader Bill wrote to say he has “a lot of problems with the Windows 7 Control Panel,” and wants the old XP ...

UPDATE: Aug. 26, 2024, 4:37 p.m. EDT Microsoft has amended its statement in the support document to say the following: "Many of the settings in Control Panel are in the process of being migrated to ...