In this post, we will show you how to Pin to Quick access, Pin to Start & Create a desktop shortcut to Control Panel items in Windows 11/10.

1] Open Control Panel in Elevated Mode using Shortcut Since Control Panel doesn’t already have a desktop shortcut, you need to create one for Control Panel so that it will run in elevated mode.

To open the Control Panel just double-click on the shortcut. How to add an icon for the Control Panel on the Windows 8 taskbar ...

While this process will work for anything, we’ll go through the steps for adding a shortcut to Control Panel: Open the Start menu and type “Regedit” to launch the registry editor.

You can, however, create a shortcut that lists all your Control Panel options in one list. If you're a tech news follower, you might have seen this listed recently as a "God mode" explorer hack.

Right-click on the shortcut, click on Properties, and click on the Change Icon button. If you slide the scroll bar to the middle in the resulting display, the Control Panel icon should be visible.

If you miss the Start menu in Windows 8 largely because of the easy path it provided to the Control Panel, there are three keyboard shortcuts you need to know.