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Microsoft keeps hiding Control Panel, but it's still necessary for these 6 vital tasks

Microsoft has been phasing out the Control Panel in favor of the Settings app since 2012. But more than a decade later, it’s still in no hurry to disappear. The Control Panel is still necessary for ...
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Windows System Restore can easily eat gigabytes — I fixed it without turning it off

I fixed the storage leak without losing this safety net ...
techtarget

What is System Restore?

System Restore is a Microsoft Windows utility designed to protect and revert the operating system (OS) to a previous state. This state is known as a restore point. The utility is useful when there is ...
Ars Technica

Control Panel/System: Click on it and nothing happens

I did a system restore on my Vaio laptop and installed all the updates including sp2. The problem is that when I click on system in the control panel nothing happens. I have never encountered this ...