

You can jump straight to the Hardware and Sound category from the File Explorer by pasting the following in the location bar in File Explorer. If you open the app and go to Hardware and Sounds, and click Sounds, you will see the old Sound window complete with the Recording, Playback, Sounds, and Communications tab. Click it, and it will open the Control panel sound settings. The Sound tab has an option called Sound Control Panel. You can still open the Sound tab in the Settings app from the System Tray. The Control Panel sound settings are still there but you can’t access them from the system tray anymore. It’s the same story Microsoft is moving settings from the Control Panel to the Settings app and it starts by changing or removing the easiest way to access them. The sound settings that you can access from the system tray take you to the Settings app where you have basic settings. It allowed users to access the Control Panel sound settings but it is now gone. Game Bar will ask you if the screen you are in is a game, you will just have to lie here and click the tick box that says, Yes, this is a game. The Win + G key combo should open the Game Bar. On Windows 10 1903, the context menu that appears when you right-click the speaker icon is missing the Sounds option. Once the Xbox app is open, just hit the key combo Win + G on the screen you want to record or take a screenshot.

A major feature update for Windows 10 means users will have to guess why certain settings are missing, and where they’ve gone.
