IMac running Windows 7. No trace of Boot Camp to be found. Need Control Panel

I am currently using an iMac which boots directly into Windows 7. I didn't set it up, but back when it had XP, the Boot Camp Control Panel was visble in the taskbar. Now, in Windows 7, there is no trace of Boot Camp anywhere. Nothing in the Windows Control Panel, the taskbar, programs, etc.
I need the Boot Camp Control Panel to adjust the brightness of the display to use a monitor calibrator. The NVIDIA properties has brightness control, but that just mixes grey in to make it "look" brighter without changing the light intensity, the true brightness.
I do not have access to any boot camp disks or OSX/Windows disks, so my options are limited for troubleshooting.
Any advice would be greatly apreciated.

I'm a lousy guesser so you'll have tell us the model/year/OS version of the computer you have.
Can you ask the one who set it up for you?
Do you have an Apple Softrware Updater in Windows?
Unless you have the updater or the control panel there's no way to tell which version if any you have. You can try down loading the different Boot Camp files and see if any work. BUT, they are large files and you have to install them in sequence (depending on which version you have now), 3.1 then 3.2 then 3.3, etc, AND you have to have 3.0 in order to install any of them and it only comes on the 10.6 MacOS installer disk.
Look in the Programs and Features control panel and see if you see any Apple files. Without the 10.6 Disk your out of luck.

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