Microsoft has made a ton of changes to the Windows 10 operating system. With an attempt to make the OS more user friendly, they also ended up clearing out most of its features that some would say were useful. One of these excluded features was the control panel access present directly in the file explorer.
Microsoft has included a host of things that you can access by right-clicking on the start button. But the exclusion of control panel from the windows explorer is not a welcome change for many, especially for those who tweak around with folder options a lot. Having the control panel in the File Explorer will mean that you don’t need to go to search and look for control panel from there every time. There is a way to add the control panel to the file explorer, but a small tweak is required to the registry for this to happen. So let’s take a look at how to do that.
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How to add control panel in File Explorer in Windows 10?
As mentioned above, this process requires a registry file tweak. So you will have to edit the registry editor in Windows 10. This is not a risk-free procedure at all as a simple miss can lead to reinstalling Windows all over again. So follow the instructions given accordingly, and you should be fine. However, if you are worried about anything going wrong, then make sure to save a copy of your registry file in some other location. Also, set a recovery point before trying this method so that if anything goes wrong, then you can come back to that point.
- Click on the windows search bar down below and enter “regedit”. In the results section, you will see the registry editor. Open it up.
- Using the left-hand navigation bar in Regedit find this specific Key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer
