So this post shows the current ways you can access Control Panel and its various settings.

While there is a setting that lets you select which programs to open based on a file’s extension, it often doesn’t let you pick the app you want, whereas in Control Panel you can always browse to the program’s. Windows 10: Change the Default Programs for Opening Files I previously wrote this post that is affected by these changes: This wouldn’t be such a big problem if the Settings panels that Microsoft wants you to use actually had options for all the settings available in Control Panel. However, you still have the issue that when you click on certain links, it takes you to the new Settings windows instead of the classic dialog boxes from earlier versions of Windows. Thanks to T4L reader James who pointed out in the comments on another post that while Control Panel is no longer in the right-click menu, you can still get to it from the Start menu if you scroll down the list of programs to Windows System and click the down arrow to display several options, including CP. However, with the Fall 2017 Creators Update, that menu item has now disappeared. Until recently, you could access Control Panel by right-clicking on the Start menu.

Can t access control panel