Want a great shortcut for getting to your Control Panel modules without having to click through Start /Settings /Control Panel? Or just want to load one particular item? There are a couple of ways to do this.

Here's one:

Open Control Panel and Explorer. Make a new folder directly underneath the Start Menu called "Control Panel". Select some or all of the icons in Control Panel, and drag them into this new folder. Windows will make a shortcut to each icon you drop into the folder, forming a new menu right off the Start Menu. Not only can you rename or remove any of the entries you wish, but you can add non-Control Panel items to the list, such as the Volume Control and Dial-up Networking (which should have been in the Control Panel in the first place). Here's another: In the Start Menu folder (located in your \Windows folder), create a new folder and name it, exactly: Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} Put this all on one line, and be sure to include the period (.), the curly braces, all four hyphens, and the hex numbers as shown. After doing this, you'll get a folder in your Start Menu called Control Panel with a cascading menu with all of the Control Panel modules in it. It's a real timesaver. You can also do the same with the following system folders:

Dial-Up Networking.{992CFFA0-F557-101A-88EC-00DD010CCC48} Printers.{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D} Recycle Bin.{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}