Miss the old XP Control Panel? You can get something close to it in Windows 7. But do you really want to?

Opening the Control Panel On Windows 7, click Start and Control Panel from the menu. It's that simple. In 8/8.1, there are multiple ways to access the Control Panel. It differs whether you're on ...

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 ...

Windows 7 and Vista were a great leap forward from Windows XP, but the Control Panel has become more difficult to use.

By default, Windows' 7's Control Panel broadly groups its options, tucking the nitty-gritty stuff you might be looking for into very general categorie ...

This is a problem I had on the Windows 7 RC, and today with a clean install of Windows 7 Home Premium x86. Whenever I go into the control panel and click an icon like "Programs and Features" or ...

If you miss the Start menu in Windows 8 largely because of the easy path it provided to the Control Panel, there are three keyboard shortcuts you need to know.

Future versions of Windows 10 might remove the legacy Control Panel app in favor of the modern settings page. The change may come in the fall 2020 update.