by Cathy Margolin, Reviews Editor, reviews@netsurfernews.com

Late this summer I bought a great new ASUS laptop with Vista 64 on it. Well, I hate to be the last one on the block to play with a new Operating system, so 3 days after I bought it, I loaded Windows 7 Professional 64 bit (from MSDN). It worked great- no drivers needed! But, being a techie, I got used to going into the Control Panel and just selecting an icon of what I want to change such as System, Parental Controls,  Date and Time, etc. instead of going to selecting a category first such as  "System and Security" then the actual item I really want such as System.

So with Windows 7, I could not find the "Classic" view of the Control Panel. But I solved it!

Go to Start, Control Panel. I should open as below. On the upper right is "View by- Category"- marked by the big red ^^^^ below.

Click on the "View by- Category" and

it will drop down. Select "Small Icons"  and voila, the "Classic" Control Panel has now appeared.

And if you have recently upgraded from Windows XP, just a quick reminder that "Add and Remove Programs" is now filed under P for "Programs and Features". 

Enjoy Windows 7!