If your Control Panel will not open in Windows 11/10/8/7, then this post will help you troubleshoot and fix the problem. Your computer may be infected with malware, the .cpl file may have become ...

This is a problem I had on the Windows 7 RC, and today with a clean install of Windows 7 Home Premium x86. <BR><BR>Whenever I go into the control panel and click an icon like "Programs and Features" ...

Learn how Windows 7 changes access to encryption and credential management features in its revised Control Panel apps Now that Microsoft has made the Windows 7 beta available for public download, many ...

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Once the nerve center of Windows operating systems, the Control Panel and its multitude of applets has its roots in the earliest versions of Windows. From here users could use these configuration ...

We are pleased to release Windows Access Panel for Windows x86, and x64. While you can use Control Panel to change settings that control nearly everything about how Windows looks and works, in some ...

An attacker or a rogue employee can create and register custom control panel items and use these files to bypass the Windows AppLocker security feature. AppLocker is a security service introduced with ...

There’s a lot to love about the Windows 7 operating system: it’s fast, it looks great, and it has some cool features–like Jump Lists for quickly opening recently used files, Homegroup for sharing ...

Windows 7 has been on store shelves and on new PCs for more than two months now, and so far it appears to be a hit. During his keynote speech at the International CES electronics expo last week in Las ...

What is the Windows Registry? Think of it as the “brains” of your Windows installation. Specifically, it’s a giant warehouse, a single, easy-to-access, hierarchical database that stores each of your ...