The newer Windows Settings app has been slowly stealing features from the legacy Control Panel for years, and now Microsoft has finally said the obvious out loud — “the Control Panel is in the process ...

Microsoft Windows has had a Control Panel feature for nearly four decades. The first version debuted with Windows 1.0 in 1985 as a tool for viewing and changing system settings, and it remained the ...

(RTTNews) - Microsoft (MSFT) announced via a blog post that it is in the process of gradually retiring the traditional Control Panel, a long-standing feature of the Windows operating system, in favor ...

In 2020, we wrote, "Microsoft Might Kill the Classic Control Panel Soon," adding that to do so, it needed to fix the Settings menu that would be replacing it. A year later, we wrote that Microsoft was ...

Editor's take: Microsoft has spent years trying to phase out the traditional Windows Control Panel. Since Windows 10, the company has pushed users toward a modernized settings interface, but the ...

Windows 11 24H2 has a time zone bug, but Control Panel can solve it. Microsoft is working on fixing the bug, but Control ...

Microsoft is slowly deprecating Control Panel in favor of the Settings app, but the transition is taking time. Essential elements like Device Manager and power options still need to be fully ...

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Are you all serious? What type of "redesign" can you envision for those settings? There can be actually none, besides reshuffling single items, IMHO. Of course they can add new settings for new ...

Windows UI dumbing down for desktop use is one of the more irksome trends of the last 20 years, IMO. Peak useability was probably reached in the mid 2000s. Edit. I am somewhat amazed that there are ...

To open the Control Panel, it is best to type control in the search field of the taskbar and click on the entry in the hit list. But there’s an even easier way: You can also add a link to the Control ...