Controlling Windows 8 with Control Panel

Control Panel is a folder that contains a large number of icons—the Classic view of a default Windows 8 setup contains about 50 icons, but depending on your system configuration, even more icons could be available. Each of these icons deals with a specific area of the Windows 8 configuration: hardware, applications, fonts, printers, multimedia, and much more.

Opening an icon displays a window or dialog box containing various properties related to that area of Windows. For example, launching the Programs and Features icon enables you to install or uninstall third-party applications and to activate or deactivate Windows 8 components.

Get Windows 8 In Depth now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.