Page 454 - Windows 10 May 2019 Update The Missing Manual: The Book That Should Have Been in the Box

Many are duplicated in the Settings app. Others are so obscure that you’ll

wonder what on earth inspired Microsoft to create them. The following
pages cover them all.

Note
Here and there, within the Control Panel, you’ll spot a little Windows security-shield icon. It tells
you that you’re about to make an important, major change to the operating system, something that
will affect everyone who uses this PC—fiddling with its network settings, for example, or
changing its clock. To prove your worthiness (and to prove you’re not an evil virus attempting to
make a nasty change), you’ll be asked to authenticate yourself; see “Authenticate Yourself: User
Account Control” for details.

Many Roads to the Control Panel

For most people, the quickest way to the Control Panel is to click into the
taskbar search box; start typing control panel until you see its name at the

top of the menu. Press Enter (or tap it).

But those are only the tips of the iceberg of Ways to Open Control Panel.
Consider:

Control Panel is listed in your Start menu’s “All apps” list (in
the folder called Windows System).

Often, you’ll wind up popping into the Control Panel without
any warning—after clicking a “More options” link in the Settings

app. (Settings has a lot of links to the Control Panel like that.)

The search box is uncannily good at taking you to the control

panel you really want, too. Hit +S to open the search box; type
color; when you see Color Management highlighted in the results
list, press Enter to open it. (On other quests, you might type fonts,

sound, battery, accounts, date, CDs, speech, or whatever.)

There’s a similar search box right in the Control Panel window
itself.