


Many of the individual Control Panel applets can be accessed in other ways. In Windows Vista and Windows 7, additional layers of navigation were introduced, and the Control Panel window itself became the main interface for editing settings, as opposed to launching separate dialogs. Users can switch between this Category View and the grid-based Classic View through an option that appears on either the left side or top of the window. In Windows XP, the Control Panel home screen was changed to present a categorized navigation structure reminiscent of navigating a web page. For example, the Add or Remove Programs applet is stored under the name appwiz.cpl in the SYSTEM32 folder. the folder does not physically exist, but only contains shortcuts to various applets such as Add or Remove Programs and Internet Options.

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