Finding and opening the Control Panel in Windows 11, 10, 8.1, and 7 is a handy skill in many scenarios. Here we reveal how to do it in a few steps quickly.

You can make Control Panel open in Category or All Items - Large or Small Icons View, using the UI or Registry in Windows 11/10.

Learn how to open or run Control Panel as Administrator in elevated mode in Windows 11/10 using any one of these two methods.

If you're looking for a quick way to get to the Control Panel in Windows 11, here's how to add it to the context menu.

With the right code and edits to the Registry File, you can add access to the Control Panel directly into Windows 11 File Explorer.

The epic Windows 11 questline to dump the old Control Panel completely from Microsoft's desktop OS continues - but it's painfully slow progress.