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To: ansel12
"Just add Control Panel to your start icons."

Thank you for letting me know I can do that. But why isn't it listed in the first place? It should be top of the list.

55 posted on 12/12/2024 1:36:03 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

If you use Control Panel a lot, add it to your task bar, also, you can hide search if it is on your task bar.


58 posted on 12/12/2024 1:51:10 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: yesthatjallen
"Just add Control Panel to your start icons." Thank you for letting me know I can do that. But why isn't it listed in the first place? It should be top of the list.

Windows designers, as part of the trend toward dumbing down," tend to presume a user should not want to see, or should see such aspects as file extensions, "Copy to" options, create their own menus, etc. or even use Control Panel, which MS is trying to faze out in favor of the full screen and more confusing Settings page (Windows key and i key) though it can be useful.

However, I try to find the actual paths to such, for which I can make shortcuts to, and or place them in my AutoHotKey script to launch via chosen keyboard combos. For instance,


Run control.exe is Ctrl. Alt + C.

Add//Remove programs is
C:\Windows\System32\appwiz.cpl

Now if you just paste control.exe in your Run command box (Windows key and r key) and hit Enter, then it will launch Control Panel. Of course, for efficient, you can get the old Start Menus back, and the old TaskBar, plus the ability to create your own Quick Launch bar, and add location and program shortcuts to the hidden "Send to" right click option.

Therefore I like the the over 200 tweaks available in Ultimate Windows Tweaker 5 (quicker download here from Major Geeks) for Windows 11 from the Windows club (Windows 10 users should use Ultimate Windows Tweaker 4.8).

Taskbar (Windows 11, customized via Explorer Patcher and 7+ Taskbar Tweaker beta, and running portable Firefox installations, each generally for its own purpose):

See here, by the grace of God, and may all be used for good as He wills.

79 posted on 12/12/2024 5:18:06 PM PST by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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