How to get to old control panel in W10

vgchat said:

Right clicking on the start button seems to have the same effect as pressing win-x. Nice shortcut I learned from this thread.

The default Windows Start button yes, but not if you have replaced it with a Classic Shell Start button. Right clicking that only gives you access to Classic Shell's settings and Windows Explorer.

vgchat, thanks for the screenshot and for the win-x info, I surely did not know this and it's much easier than going through all the other stuff.

Right clicking by the start menu is how I do it. I love that power users menu. It is the same thing as WindowsKey+x

Ztruker said:

But if you use Start10 then you can tell it to display the Win+X context menu on right click of the Start button.

I just discovered you can do the same thing in Classic Shell.

If you chose to have the desktop on the taskbar, then it is a single left-click away to the old control panel.

I fiddled around until I found the classic settings for adding/disabling Desktop Icons:

In Settings->Personalization->Themes:



That brings up the Classic Icons panel:



And then you can even put "This Computer" back on the Desktop.

OR open File Explorer and type control in the address bar...OR Windows Key + R and type control. OR one of the other ways that where mentioned here too...

I don't have a Microphone but Cortana responds pretty well with just typed in queries.

Right clicking by the start menu is how I do it...

Bingo!
The easiest way to access the old style control panel (and other goodies)
is simply to right click the start button.