CONTROL PANEL BASICS

The Control Panel is used to install and manage the different hardware components of your computer. The Control Panel can be opened in more than one way. Let us see two ways here.

1. To open the Control Panel, click on the Start button and then on Control Panel.

2. Double click on the My Computer icon on the desktop and select Control Panel from the left side pane.

Control Panel window opens. There are two views of Control Panel.

• Category View
• Classic View

Category View is the Default View. Classic View is similar to the one available in earlier versions of Windows. Whatever be the view, everything works the same way. Also, we can switch from one view to another.

Control Panel Icons :

Now, let us see some of the icons present in the control panel and their functions.

This allows you to adjust your computer settings for vision, hearing and mobility.

This allows you to customize your mouse settings such as the button configuration, double-click speed, mouse pointers and motion speed.

This allows you to customize your keyboard settings such as the cursor blink rate and the character repeat rate.

This allows you to set the date , time and time zone for your computer.

This allows you to change the appearance of your desktop, such as the background, screen saver, colors, font sizes and screen resolution.

This allows you to customize settings for the display of languages, numbers, times and dates.

There are many other icons also available in the Control Panel. Just move the mouse pointer for a few seconds over each of the icons to know about their functions.