{"id":12778,"date":"2018-09-13T05:12:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T05:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=12778"},"modified":"2018-09-13T05:15:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T05:15:01","slug":"open-game-controllers-settings-in-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/open-game-controllers-settings-in-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Ways to Open Game Controllers Settings in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to install a game controller or calibrate your joystick, you have to access the Game Controllers Settings. In this tutorial we&#8217;ll show you different ways to open Game Controllers Settings in Windows 10.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/game-controllers-settings.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"381\" height=\"312\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12784\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Method 1: Open Game Controllers Settings via Run Command<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>press the <strong>Windows<\/strong> key and <strong>R<\/strong> to bring up the Run command, type <strong>joy.cpl<\/strong> and press Enter. This will launch the Game Controllers window immediately.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/run-joy-command.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"401\" height=\"207\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12783\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Method 2: Open Game Controllers Settings via Windows 10 Search<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Click the Cortana Search box in the taskbar, enter &#8220;<strong>game controller<\/strong>&#8221; and you can then click the &#8220;<strong>Set up USB game controller<\/strong>&#8221; option from the search result.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/set-up-usb-game-controller.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"394\" height=\"437\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12785\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Method 3: Open Game Controllers Settings via Control Panel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Open the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/9-ways-to-open-control-panel-in-windows-10\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Control Panel<\/a> in Large icons, click on <strong>Devices and Printers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/devices-and-printers.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"573\" height=\"339\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11230\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Locate your joystick. Right-click on it and select &#8220;<strong>Game controller settings<\/strong>&#8221; from the popup menu.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/game-controller-device.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"579\" height=\"461\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12786\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It will display the Game Controllers Settings dialog.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Method 4: Create a Desktop Shortcut to Open Game Controllers Settings<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you need to access the Game Controllers Settings regularly, follow the step-by-step instructions to create a desktop shortcut on Windows 10:<\/p>\n<p>Right click any blank area on the desktop, then select <strong>New<\/strong> -> <strong>Shortcut<\/strong> from the context menu.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/new-shortcut.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"352\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9289\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Copy and paste the following path into the location box, and click <strong>Next<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<code>%SystemRoot%\\System32\\joy.cpl<\/code><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/shotcut-location-for-game-controllers.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"433\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12787\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Give a name for your Game Controllers shortcut.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/enter-shortcut-name.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"424\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12788\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Click <strong>Finish<\/strong> and you&#8217;re done!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to install a game controller or calibrate your joystick, you have to access the Game Controllers Settings. In this tutorial we&#8217;ll show you different ways to open Game Controllers Settings in Windows 10. Method 1: Open Game Controllers Settings via Run Command press the Windows key and R to bring up the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894],"tags":[3962,3961],"class_list":["post-12778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","tag-create-game-controllers-desktop-shortcut","tag-open-game-controllers-in-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12778"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12793,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12778\/revisions\/12793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}