Windows has settings. Boy howdy, does it have settings.
The desktop’s Control Panel (shown in Figure 1-1) — long the bastion of Windows settings, through many generations of Windows (see the nearby sidebar) — controls many of the settings on a Windows 10 PC. The new Universal Settings app (shown in Figure 1-2) controls several hundred settings. And — get this — there’s a bit of overlap between the two, but some settings can be changed only in the Settings app, and other settings can be changed only on the old-fashioned Control Panel.
Figure 1-1: The old-fashioned Control Panel is still alive and well — just hard to reach.
Figure 1-2: The new Universal Settings app looks inviting, but it doesn’t ...
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Introducing the Universal Settings app
The desktop’s Control Panel (shown in Figure 1-1) — long the bastion of Windows settings, through many generations of Windows (see the nearby sidebar) — controls many of the settings on a Windows 10 PC. The new Universal Settings app (shown in Figure 1-2) controls several hundred settings. And — get this — there’s a bit of overlap between the two, but some settings can be changed only in the Settings app, and other settings can be changed only on the old-fashioned Control Panel.