Microsoft is phasing out the traditional Control Panel with the Windows 10 Creators Update, but with a few tweaks you can still access it. Mark Kaelin explains how.

The Control Panel icon should now appear on your desktop. TIP: PinToStartMenu lets you pin Control Panel all items and folders to Windows Start Menu, via your right-click context menu.

The Control Panel in Windows is one of the most useful tools on your desktop. To make it even easier to get there, you can add it to your right-click menu from anywhere with a simple tweak to your ...

The desktop Control Panel is the same as what we remember from previous versions of Windows, but is just not as intuitively accessed as it used to be.

Or press Windows-R and type in this command to open the full Desktop Background control panel with all the advanced options for working with desktop backgrounds, where you will see all the images ...

With Windows' hidden feature, called GodMode, you can create a custom control panel, giving you access to your most important settings and tools.

How to Set Associations in the Control Panel. Many programs offer internal tools for configuring file associations, but the Control Panel configures all file associations through a single Windows ...