How to make shortcuts to Windows 10 settings on your Desktop
Here's how you can create custom Desktop shortcuts to open the Windows10 Settings app at a specific setting
- 03 June, 2015 21:17
Want to see Windows 10's log of your I/O usage -- the Data Usage app in Settings -- by simply clicking or tapping on the Desktop? Enable or disable your microphone with two clicks? Turn off your webcam? Manage your Wi-Fi settings? It's easy.
A simple extension of a brilliant hack by Lucas (@Whistler4Ever), published by Sergey Tkachenko at WinAero, and unearthed by Steven Parker at Neowin gives you a very easy way to put an icon on your Windows 10 Desktop screen that opens to just about any Settings page, where you can change a setting in a nonce.
Here's how to make it work:
A new shortcut appears on your desktop. Double-click or tap it, and the Settings app appears.
Here's the list: