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Exploring Control Panel Features in Windows 7: A Comprehensive Guide

Learn how to navigate Control Panel in Windows 7, manage settings, troubleshoot issues, use Group Policies, and customize system features effectively. Enhance your Windows 7 experience with practical tips and tricks.

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Exploring Control Panel Features in Windows 7: A Comprehensive Guide

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  1. Controlling Windows 7 with Control Panel Ch 8

  2. The Control Panel Window • Category View

  3. The Control Panel Window • Small icons View

  4. New Control Panel Items • Action Center • Administrative Tools • Component Services • Biometric Devices • Only if you have fingerprint readers, etc. • Credential Manager • Desktop Gadgets • Devices and Printers • Display • Getting Started

  5. New Control Panel Items • HomeGroup • Location and Other Sensors • Such as GPS devices, if you have them • Notification Area Icons • Recovery • System Restore and system image recovery • RemoteApp and Desktop Connections • Lets you connect to a remote application server • Troubleshooting

  6. Action Center • Helpful and easily customized • Alerts show in Notification Area

  7. Credential Manager • Much enhanced from earlier versions

  8. Desktop Gadgets • Vista’s Sidebar is gone

  9. Getting Started • Replaces Vista’s Welcome Center • Also appears near the top of the Start menu

  10. HomeGroup • Easy and secure file sharing at home • Password-protected • Only on Home networks, not Work or Public

  11. Troubleshooting • Very handy • Fixed Aero on my Eee

  12. Launching Control Panel Items from the Command Line • Folder Options • control folders • Network Connections • control npca.cpl • Or • control netconnections • Windows Firewall • control firewall.cpl

  13. Launching Control Panel Items from the Command Line • User Accounts • control nusrmgr.cpl • Or • control userpasswords • Alternate User Accounts box with Advanced tab • control userpasswords2

  14. Limiting Control Panel with Group Policy • Start, gpedit.msc

  15. Policing Windows 7 with Group Policies Ch 9

  16. Group Policies • Control Windows in great detail • Push policies to many machines • Set a Restore point before making major changes

  17. Editions • Local Group Policy Editor is not available on Starter or Home Premium versions of Windows 7 (link Ch 9a) • But you can make the same changes with Regedit • Details can be downloaded from Microsoft (link Ch 9b)

  18. Working with Group Policies • Left pane • Computer Configuration • Settings apply to all users • Take effect before a user logs on

  19. Working with Group Policies • Left pane • User Configuration • Settings apply to the current user only • Take effect after that user logs on

  20. Working with Group Policies • Right pane shows the actual policies

  21. Configuring a Policy • Three states: Not Configured, Enabled, or Disabled • Supported on: shows Windows versions • Some policies have more choices

  22. Filtering Policies • Use the “All Settings” branch of the appropriate Administrative Templates item • Action, Filter Options • Helps to find specific policies

  23. Group Policy Examples • Customizing the Windows Security Window • It appears when you press Ctrl+Alt+Delete • Customizing Open and Save As dialog boxes • Increasing the Size of the Recent Documents List • Enabling the Shutdown Event Tracker • See project 2x (extra credit)

  24. Customizing the Microsoft Management Console Ch 10

  25. Microsoft Management Console • Start, MMC, Enter • It’s an empty container at first • Add Snap-ins to use it

  26. Snap-ins • Microsoft Common Console Documents • .msc files • Demo • Start, gpedit.msc • Open Task Manager • On Applications tab, right-click “Local Group Policy Editor”, and click “Go To Process” • The Process is mmc

  27. Snap-ins • Many familiar tools are snap-ins • Computer Management • Device Manager • Event Viewer

  28. Demonstration: Custom Snap-in • Add snap-ins • Save the console in C:\Windows\System32 • It now appears in the Start button's Search menu • See project 10

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