Microsoft has been hemorrhaging the Windows Control Panel for several years. More and more functions are migrating to the operating system’s “Settings.” However, some options can still only be ...

Microsoft is making additional changes to Windows 11 and its Settings app, giving you fewer reasons to open the old Control Panel. Good news: more Control Panel bits are making their way to the ...

Over the past few years, Microsoft has been steadily working to deprecate the Control Panel, moving key functionalities to the more modern Settings app. While I am all for user-centric changes, this ...

Once the nerve center of Windows operating systems, the Control Panel and its multitude of applets has its roots in the earliest versions of Windows. From here users could use these configuration ...

Last week, Microsoft mentioned in a support document that it was formally deprecating Windows’ 39-year-old Control Panel applets. But following widespread reporting of the change, Microsoft has either ...

Last week, Microsoft published a support document that mentioned the death of the Windows Control Panel, which has been around since Windows 95 arrived. The document said that this iconic component of ...