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  1. Joel
    Joel

    I added Control Panel using WinAero, works great except for one thing: I like to go REALLY old-fashioned, and display control panel using ‘small icons’ instead of the default categorized view. I can switch the view, but it doesn’t save it; I have to switch the view each time it’s opened. Is there a way to have it always open in ‘small icons’ view?

  2. Mark
    Mark

    Spot on and thank you

  3. Margit
    Margit

    Easy and fast. Thanks a million!

    1. Ciprian Adrian Rusen
      Ciprian Adrian Rusen

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  4. Don
    Don

    Is it possible to add a keyboard shortcut though?

    1. Brandon Wittwer
      Brandon Wittwer

      Placing an Ampersand in front of a letter of the program name will cause it to become a keyboard shortcut, underlined. It mustn’t conflict with other existing items.

      For example…. Adding Snipping Tool, rename the shortcut to Sni&pping Tool.
      Win+X,P would then launch it. But &Snipping Tool would conflict with Search… (on my machine I removed search to avoid this conflict.)

  5. Mcedonas
    Mcedonas

    Thank you so much. 🙂

  6. Unhappy MS Camper
    Unhappy MS Camper

    I so appreciate it. And I so hate the way MS just ups and decides what you can and can not do. There hasn’t been an update yet where they haven’t taken away a feature in order to cattle prod users into another method. If I could shove it up their nose I truly would. It irks me to no end that they decide the way I want to do things. No. I don’t want to do it that way. I want to do it the old way. And no, I don’t have time to learn all your flipping new ways. I don’t care about them. I just want to do what I want to do and not have to spend 2 hours after every update (now forced updates) trying to figure out what you decided to get rid of. I don’t have time for it, I don’t want to have time for it. I don’t care about it. Stop making arbitrary changes that suit no one but yourselves – and, I suspect, your egos.

  7. No1Special
    No1Special

    When Control Panel Icon View is desired select the WME All Control Panel Items option instead.

  8. No1Special
    No1Special

    Control Panel added in this fashion does not maintain the chosen View by selection (Category, Large or Small) but always reverts to Category View.

  9. Mike
    Mike

    Excellent article! Thanks. 😀

    1. Ciprian Adrian Rusen
      Ciprian Adrian Rusen

      I’m glad that it was useful.

  10. Dean Keith
    Dean Keith

    I added Control Panel to the Start Menu. Search for Control Panel in Cortana, right click and Pin to Start Menu.