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 ...

Windows has removed the Control Panel entry from the WinX Menu. You now see an item which opens Settings. The WinX Menu is the one which pops up when you right-click on the Start Button. Microsoft ...

Right-click the lower-left corner of the Desktop to activate this menu. Anyone new to Windows 8 knows that there’s a learning curve, especially when it comes to seemingly simple things like shutting ...

Recent Windows 11 updates moved a bunch of Control Panel bits to the Settings app, but there are plenty left. Here are five ...

With the release of Windows 10 20H2, Microsoft is now preventing access to the venerable SYSTEM control panel and is instead redirecting users to the newly updated 'About' settings page. The SYSTEM ...

For as long as computers have been in the hands of programmers, they have offered frequent mildly tedious tasks that their operators have sought to automate. Who hasn’t written a shell script or a ...

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 ...

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 ...