You might have heard about Microsoft killing the classic Control Panel in Windows 11. The idea is to move items in the Control Panel to the Settings app. While that has been happening incrementally ...

What just happened? The Control Panel has been an essential component of Microsoft Windows for decades, and was originally introduced in Windows 1.0 in the mid-80s. However, its days are numbered as ...

Windows 10 is trying to achieve the impossible; please everyone. The redesigned Settings app is a hotspot of this balancing act. Microsoft is challenged to make system controls accessible, even on ...

Microsoft may finally remove or hide the old Control Panel in Windows 10, according to Windows Central. The latest Windows Insider beta versions of Windows 10 reveal some subtle coding references that ...

Last week, Microsoft wanted to throw the Control Panel into the scrap heap. Now the company is rowing back a little. The classic Windows Control Panel is outdated, Microsoft wrote in a support article ...

In this post for beginners, we will see how to open the Control Panel in Windows 11/10. While Microsoft is taking steps to move most of the Windows settings to the Settings app, many users still feel ...

Update (3/28/2020): More information has come to light on the specifics of what MS is changing. As of this writing, only the "System" applet appears to be impacted. As Jim Salter points out at Ars ...

Considering that when you choose "advanced" settings from the new default app it just sends you right back to the classic menus its clear that its not a full replacement as of yet. It's a boring job ...

If you have grown up with the Windows operating systems, you probably know the importance of the Control Panel. It has been the most iconic and useful Windows OS feature, which lets you control your ...

Update (3/28/2020): More information has come to light on the specifics of what MS is changing. As of this writing, only the "System" applet appears to be impacted. As Jim Salter points out at Ars ...