All you have to do is use the path instead of using Control Panel. If you know which Control Panel setting you want to open, you can get its path from the Control Panel app and use all of the above methods to open it directly. Apart from the above methods, you will also find some UI elements on Windows 10 that open a Control Panel window such as the battery icon in the system tray. If you explore the Settings app a bit, you will find that many links to certain settings will open the Control Panel.

Open PowerShell with normal user rights.

Enter Control Panel, and tap the Enter key.

Enter Control Panel and select the app from the results.

Click inside the search bar on any screen.

In the run box that opens, enter Control panel, and tap Enter.

On the task manager window, go to File>Run new task.

Right-click the Taskbar and select Task Manager from the context menu.

Enter Control panel in the search bar, and look for the app in the search results.

Tap the Win+S keyboard shortcut to open Windows search.

Enter the following, and tap the Enter key.Ĭontrol Panel is still an app on Windows 10 which is why you can use Windows search to open it.

In the Run box, enter the following, and tap the Enter key.

If you want to pin Control Panel to the taskbar or to Start menu, you can right-click Control Panel and choose Pin to Start or Pin to taskbar.

You can click Start, type control panel, and select the top result Control Panel app from the list to open it.

Tap the Win+R keyboard shortcut to open the Run box. Open Control Panel Windows 10/8/7 from Start Menu.

Unfortunately, Microsoft has removed it from the Power User menu so opening it is a bit confusing since it isn’t an app in the apps’ list in the Start menu. With each major Windows 10 feature release, Microsoft moves functionality from the Control Panel to the Settings app but it still has a long way to go before the Control Panel will no longer be needed. Control Panel was and remains a desktop app that Microsoft is looking to, eventually, phase out. It was the go-to app for configuring everything on Windows from the wallpaper to the firewall settings. The Control Panel was used to customize Windows before Windows 10.

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