This tutorial will walk you through the various ways you can access the desktop Control Panel. If you have any questions about these instructions, please ask in the Windows 8 Forum.

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There, type in "control panel" and click "OK," and it should open. In newer versions of Windows 10, many functions of the Task Manager have been replaced by the Settings app.