To access it in Windows 11/10, you have to click Start Menu > Control Panel > Programs and Features. But you can create its shortcuts in any of the many ways so that you can access it in a click. If ...

The Windows Control Panel allows you to control all the settings for your computer. Microsoft is planning to move all these controls over to Windows Settings, but I guess that will still take some ...

In Windows 8, Microsoft created an additional PC Settings section that you can use to customize some settings related to the Windows Start Screen and other basic settings. If you wish to gain access ...

If you're a tech news follower, you might have seen this listed recently as a "God mode" explorer hack. But that is, as Ed Bott points out, kind of ridiculous. It's merely a kind of back-alley way of ...

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. Matt Elliott Senior Editor Matt Elliott ...

Selecting your business printer through the Devices and Printers section of the Windows 7 Control Panel opens a status window for the device. This status window shows the current state of the printer, ...

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