Use Windows Registry to add it If you like to do things in an old-school way in Windows 11 or want easy access to the Control Panel from the context menu, tweaking the Registry allows you to do ...

There, you will find an icon granting direct access to the Windows Control Panel (Figure G). From here, you can add Control Panel access to the Start Menu or add it to the Quick Access section of ...

Fortunately for us, adding direct access to the Control Panel in Windows 11 Desktop doesn’t involve any edits of the Windows Registry file or any other complicated trick or obscure system tweak.

To open the Control Panel, it is best to type control in the search field of the taskbar and click on the entry in the hit list. But there’s an even easier way: You can also add a link to the ...