Miss the old XP Control Panel? You can get something close to it in Windows 7. But do you really want to?

This is a problem I had on the Windows 7 RC, and today with a clean install of Windows 7 Home Premium x86. Whenever I go into the control panel and click an icon like "Programs and Features" or ...

Learn how to open or run Control Panel as Administrator in elevated mode in Windows 11/10 using any one of these two methods.

Microsoft isn't killing Windows Control Panel after all The 40-year-old tool still seems to have plenty of life left, though certain settings will continue to be deprecated.

Not sure if your installed version of Windows is 32-bit or 64-bit? One quick way to tell is by looking at information about your operating system installation in Control Panel.