Microsoft shifts another Windows 11 feature to Settings from the Control Panel — but I expect the latter will still be with us in the 2030s.

Microsoft’s modernization of the Windows UI has been a long, winding road culminating in the sleek appearance of Windows 11. This included a redesigned Settings app with a completely overhauled nested ...

You will soon have fewer reasons to open the old Control Panel in Windows 11 as Microsoft is moving more mouse options to the Settings app. Windows 11's Settings app is a much better place than it ...

The Control Panel has been a part of Windows since Windows 1.0. However, as Windows 11 has reached more than half a billion devices, Microsoft is aiming to fine-tune the features in Windows 11 to ...

As Microsoft updates and improves Windows, it is also removing features it no longer finds useful. These features are added to a list of deprecated Windows functions. The latest addition to this list ...

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 ...

After massive news last week saw significant attention from the public, Microsoft is now clarifying that it is not removing the Control Panel and its functionalities in the Windows operating system.

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 ...