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Chapter 7. Settings & Control

Panel

Every complex machine has a control panel. There’s the dashboard of a car,
the knobs on a stove, the cockpit of an airplane. And then there’s the
granddaddy of them all: the Control Panel in Windows.

Actually, in Windows 10, the Control Panel isn’t very important anymore.
It’s still there—like an old typewriter you can’t bear to throw away—and
you can still read about it later in this chapter.

But in Windows 10, Microsoft has extracted a few hundred of the Control
Panel’s most useful options and packaged them up into a new app called
Settings. It’s far cleaner, simpler, and better organized, and it’s designed to

accommodate either a mouse or your finger on a touchscreen.

With every new Windows 10 update, Microsoft moves more controls out of
the old Control Panel and into Settings. At this point, only the most obscure

settings require a visit to the Control Panel—and the Settings app has gotten
huge.

The Settings App

Most of the time, you’ll customize your system in the Settings app. Volume,

screen saver, Wi-Fi setup, privacy settings, PC accounts, color schemes, and
so on—it’s all here, in one place.

And how do you get “here”? There are many avenues to Settings. But the

fastest is to open the Start menu and choose the Settings icon ( ) at far left.
Or press + I. (That’s I for settIngs, of course.)

You now encounter the magnificence of the Windows 10 Settings app

(Figure 7-1).