Windows 10: Settings vs. Control Panel Microsoft continues its push to deprecate Control Panel in Windows 10 as it pushes more and more out of the Control Panel and into the Settings app. The first thing you should know about these two menus is that Settings is now the go-to tool for most of the common Windows… Read More »
How to Put Control Panel on Your Desktop Right-Click Menu This tip will work in all versions of Windows 10 up to and including the very latest versions of Windows 10 Version 1809 (October 2018 Update) Microsoft is bound and determined to get rid of Control Panel in Windows 10 and replace it with Settings. But not so… Read More »
Control Panel: Category view vs. Icon view This tip works in Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10 Many times when we write a tip, we’ll write about using Control Panel and switching to “Large icon view” or “Icon view” rather than category view. It just dawned on us, that we’ve never covered the difference, and why using… Read More »