The Windows 8 Control Panel is a
Windows 8 Metro UI based interface which has been widely appreciated by the
users. Many users use the control panel to perform administrative tasks such as
creating users and uninstalling a program. Currently the second most talked
about Windows 8 feature after Start Menu is Control Panel. The new Metro Control
Panel doesn't replace Category View included in previous Windows versions, such
as, Windows 7 and Windows Vista. You can still switch to the old Category view
of the Control Panel from within the new interface. You can access the control
panel in many ways:
Option 1:
Using Charms Bar in Desktop.
Being on the desktop, click on setting
from the Charms bar, then select Control Panel.
![charms-bar-in-windows8.gif]()
![desktop-in-windows8.gif]()
Option 2 :
Using Desktop Shortcut Menu:
Move your mouse cursor to lower left corner
until desktop shortcuts menu appears, then click on the control panel.
![desktop-shortcut-menu-in-windows8.png]()
Note: you have to position the cursor
to touch the exact point. Otherwise you get a different shortcut menu as shown
below:
![shortcut-menu-in-windows8.gif]()
Option 3: Using desktop link on the
Taskbar.
If your Desktop is displayed on the Task bar,
you can click or touch the desktop link and open the Control Panel.
![open-control-panel-in-windows8.gif]()
Note: you can add the Desktop link to
the Task bar by right-clicking the lower left corner area and click on the
Taskbars.
Some of the useful resources are:
Panel Control in ASP.Net
Transparent Panel in C#
Gradient Panel Custom Control