To open the Control Panel from the Windows 8 Start Screen go to the Start Screen and type Control. When the search results appear click on the Settings category as shown below.

Anyone new to Windows 8 knows that there ... like shutting down your PC or enabling the hibernate option. Indeed, if you’ve ever gone looking for the Control Panel, you know that it can ...

If your Control Panel will not open in Windows 11/10/8/7, then this post will help you troubleshoot and fix the problem. Your computer may be infected with malware, the .cpl file may have become ...

Since the debut of Windows 8 in 2012, Microsoft has ... the fingerprint reader on a Windows 11 laptop. For that, I opened Device Manager through Control Panel, where I was able to remove and ...

Control Panel still exists for compatibility reasons as Microsoft continues to migrate settings to the Settings app. Microsoft first introduced the Settings app with the release of Windows 8 ...

Control Panel may finally be seeing its last days as the Settings app will finally take precedence in Windows. The Settings app was first introduced back in 2012 with the launch of Windows 8 ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. You may have read headlines last week about Microsoft removing the ...

Last week, Microsoft mentioned in a support document that it was formally deprecating Windows' 39-year-old Control Panel applets. But following widespread reporting of the change, Microsoft has ...