Three easy ways to find the Windows 8 Control Panel - blancharddeve1941

Right-click the lour-left corner of the Desktop to activate this computer menu.

Anyone new to Windows 8 knows that there's a learning curve, especially when it comes to seemingly three-needled things like shutting down your PC or sanctionative the hibernate pick.

So, if you've ever gone looking at for the Control Panel, you know that IT prat be a tiny elusive. You might think, "Oh, I'll just impinge on the ol' Charms Taproo and pat Settings," merely, alas, Control Panel doesn't appear in that list.

As it turns impossible, though, it's rattling easy to accession the CP, though the method is a trifle several conditional whether you'ray viewing the Start Screen surgery the Screen background.

For example, if you'rhenium using the Desktop (which I assume all but people are), there's no Start button, and therefore no immediately obvious right smart to find Control Panel.

Nonetheless, as explained in "20 must-know Windows 8 tips and tricks," if you right-click in the lower left corner of the screen, you'll see Windows' new Quick Access Menu, which includes Board near the bottom. Click it and fast, you're there.

A second Desktop choice: press Windows-I (that's "i" as in "igloo") along your keyboard, which will activate a Charms Barroom-like Settings menu that does let in Board. (As noted earlier, information technology's non on that point when you loose the Charms Block u in the Start Screen. Um, okay.)

Finally, Start Concealment users can fancy the keyboard and right start typing. By the time you pin out flimflam, you'll hear the Control Instrument panel "app," which you can then solicit or sink in.

If you've found a faster OR easier way to access the CP, be sure to partake in it in the comments.

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