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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
It's here on my desktop. This PC is a desktop icon, and Manage is selectable from it.
You can also reach the same functions from Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Computer Management.
Is that not available on your laptop?
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You can reach the function by right-clicking the Start-button and choosing Computer Management. I've been doing it from the This PC shortcut however, since a very long time. While I can just change that habit of course, I'm adverse to having options taken away that have been there for like... 15 (?) years.
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I was quite adept at managing Win3.1. You just had to know what to tweak in Win.ini and System.ini. 
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Call me crazy, but I liked it when Windows, and programs, had their own ini-files in their folders. Easy to back up before you change anything, able to be changed with any text editor, even outside the OS or application, and if something went REALLY wrong you could often just delete the ini-file and the program would make a new one with the defaults. (Don't know if Windows did.)
When writing backend systems for websites or applications, I often put the main, very important settings into a file called "settings.ini.php". It contains stuff like (in PHP):
define("SETTING_NAME", "ValueX");
And if that's not possible or it needs to be easier (I have one system where the users need to set the settings, and then upload the file, as there is no management backend), I create a file reader/writer to make a file containing:
SETTING_NAME = ValueX
This file mostly contains the minimum settings needed to get the site/application running and enable the management system (if any). If the application doesn't start because of a wrong setting, it can be changed with a text editor; a lot easier than having to jack around in the site/app's database. Normally I also provide the fallback mentioned earlier: if you delete "settings.ini.php", the site/application will write a default one, so it will at least start, and you can configure it from scratch.