Reviewing the Control Panel Icons

To help you familiarize yourself with what’s available in Control Panel, this section offers summary descriptions of the Control Panel icons found in a standard Windows 8 installation when using either the Large or Small Icons view. Note that your system might have extra icons, depending on your computer’s configuration and the programs you have installed.

Action Center—Displays a list of your computer’s current security issues and hardware and software problems.

Administrative Tools—Displays a window with more icons, each of which enables you to administer a particular aspect of Windows 8:

Component Services—Displays the Component Services window, which you can use to investigate Component Object Model (COM) ...

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