This control lets you play, pause, skip forward, or skip back currently playing music without having to navigate to the music player you're using. If music is playing, you'll also find a new music control UI that sits above the Quick Settings panel.

You can edit the Quick Settings panel by adding or removing your most used Quick Actions, just like you could on Windows 10. Instead of each of these things being their own flyout menu that lives on the Taskbar, Microsoft has consolidated them all into this single Quick Settings menu, once again to save space on the Taskbar. This menu is where all of your Action Center Quick Actions have moved to, as well as things like the volume control, audio devices selection, Wi-Fi list, and more. No longer are these icons individual flyouts, but rather one big button that opens a new 'Quick Settings' menu. Next to the date and time is your status icons for battery, internet, and volume.

Your notifications are housed above the calendar UI in a separate box, where they can be managed, cleared, or actioned upon. The actual notifications UI is now accessed by clicking on the date and time, which will also pull up a calendar flyout.

How to open action center in windows 10