Finding and opening the Control Panel in Windows 11, 10, 8.1, and 7 is a handy skill in many scenarios. Here we reveal how to do it in a few steps quickly.

Learn how to open or run Control Panel as Administrator in elevated mode in Windows 11/10 using any one of these two methods.

Control Panel There’s an easy-to-use slider-style option in Control Panel to disable User Account Control. Open Control Panel.

With the release of Windows 10 20H2, Microsoft is now preventing access to the venerable SYSTEM control panel and is instead redirecting users to the newly updated 'About' settings page.

The Control Panel can command programs that support multiple formats to open all applicable file types.