Chapter 7. A New Control Panel

The Control Panel, although considered scary to some, is really just the location of applications that you can use to make configuration changes or access tools that help you to either configure the functionality of your system to better suit your needs or adjust security and networking options to help the system perform properly. The many tools provided within are discussed in this chapter.

Control Panel Improvements

The Control Panel has been an integral part of Windows since the very beginning. Starting with Windows 95, however, the Control Panel took on its modern form as a folder with shortcuts toward applications ...

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