In this post, we will show you how to Pin to Quick access, Pin to Start & Create a desktop shortcut to Control Panel items in Windows 11/10.

Pin Special Folders as a Tile to Windows 8.1 Start Screen As mentioned, as an example we will take Control Panel. First, create a shortcut.

This will create a Control Panel icon and pin it in the Windows 8 desktop taskbar. You can then click on the Control Panel icon on the taskbar when you wish to open the Control Panel.

(Open the Control Panel, move up a level in the folder hierarchy, right click on the Control Panel icon, and choose Pin to Start.) From the desktop view, however, these actions are not available.

In this guide, we detail the steps to include access to Control Panel inside the Windows 10 File Explorer.