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As all Windows 10 users have learned, Microsoft has now moved most of the Control Panel features into the Settings app in Windows 10. How much longer the Control Panel will be around is anyone’s guess. As of today, there are still some features of the Control Panel that have not been migrated to the Settings app. But it does seem likely the Control Panel will eventually be removed from Windows 10.<\/span><\/p>\n The Settings app contains the following categories:\u00a0 System, Devices, Phone, Network & Internet, Personalization, Apps, Accounts, Time & language, Gaming, Ease of Access, Cortana, Privacy, Update & security (and on some versions “Mixed reality”).<\/span><\/p>\n All Settings categories have sub-pages. Most of these sub-pages are accessible directly using the ms-settings commands. you can see a list of ms-settings commands here<\/a><\/span> and directly from Microsoft here<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n How to Add a Cascading Settings Context Menu on the Windows 10 Desktop<\/span> Download this zip file<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n Once you’ve downloaded file, unzip it, and right-click on the file named “settings-menu.reg” and choose “Merge”. (You can also double-click it.)<\/span><\/p>\n You will get a warning reminding you that adding things to your registry can cause problems. Click “Yes” to proceed.<\/span><\/p>\n Once you click yes, you’ll see a dialog confirming that the changes have successfully been added to your registry<\/span><\/p>\n And if you did all that correctly when you right-click on an empty space on your desktop you’ll have a Settings entry on your right-click menu. And when you click on “Settings” you’ll a cascading menu showing all the categories in Settings will appear.<\/span><\/p>\n Enjoy!<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Add a Cascading Settings Context Menu on the Windows 10 Desktop As all Windows 10 users have learned, Microsoft has now moved most of the Control Panel features into the Settings app in Windows 10. How much longer the Control Panel will be around is anyone’s guess. As of today, there are still some features of\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3905,3948],"tags":[4030],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19930"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19936,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19930\/revisions\/19936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nIf you want to add a cascading \u201cSettings\u201d context menu that you can open by right-clicking your Windows 10 desktop, we’ve made it simple for you.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"Windows](\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/reg-warning1a.png\")
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