With the old Windows Start menu, you could add the Command Panel as a menu or a drop-down listing. With Windows 8 or Windows 10, you can pin the Command Console to the Start Screen and taskbar simply first you need to know where it is.

1 of the main complaints virtually Windows 8 (or whatever new version of Microsoft's operating organisation) is "where did such-and-such go?" With Windows eight, when MS removed the Starting time button and Get-go Menu, information technology threw a lot of people for a loop. Considering the Start Menu was similar an old familiar hang out; one of those places that no thing how it inverse over the years, it was a fairly reliable identify to find stuff whether it was your Documents folder, Devices, Printers, the ability to search your programs and files, and of course, the Control Panel.

There are virtually four ways (so far) to admission the Control Panel in Windows 8 or 10.

Finding the Control Panel Using Windows 10

If yous're using Windows 10, you can but search the Kickoff Menu for "Command Panel" and it volition testify right up in the list. Yous can either click to open up information technology, or you could right-click and Pin to Start or Pin to taskbar for easier access the next fourth dimension.

If you choose to Pin to Commencement, you'll encounter it on the right-manus side of the Start Menu.

For Windows 8, Method ane: Search for It

If you are using Windows 8, information technology introduces a "Charms" bar accessible from the top or bottom right "hot corner". But drag the mouse pointer to either corner until the 5 Charms appear along the right edge of the screen. Drag the mouse arrow and click on Search (you lot can access the Search charm through the keyboard shortcut Windows logo + Q).

The search pane volition pop out and from in that location you tin can blazon Control Panel and select it from the results to the left. Alternatively, yous tin simply begin typing from the Offset Screen.

Windows 8 – Method 2: The Ribbon aka Windows Explorer

In Windows 7, you can open up Windows Explorer click on Estimator and then Open Command Panel on the toolbar.

In Windows eight or 10, you lot can also click on Open Control Panel but the toolbar has been replaced past the Ribbon as institute in Office 2010.

Windows 8 – Method 3: More Charms – Settings

Admission the Charms bar once more. Elevate the mouse pointer to and click on Settings. The Settings pane will popular out and you can then choose Control Panel.

Annotation: To this settings option is only available from the desktop Charms setting.

Method 4: The Easiest Fashion – Right-click the Start "Button"

Final and possibly the easiest way, right-click on what was formerly known as the Starting time push in the bottom left corner (now a hot corner), which allows you to switch between the Desktop and Commencement Screen. Right clicking brings up a context menu with broad array of options. The Command Panel is the fifth from the bottom.

And there you have it, four sure ways to access the Control Panel in Windows 8 Preview Release. Of course, some of these could alter before it is released to manufacturers. We'll be sure to keep you apprised of any of these changes if or when they happen.

Do you have an some other style of opening the Windows 8 Control Panel? What is your preferred method? Let us know in the comments.