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 ...

The official Windows support page has posted a notice that 'Control Panel will be discontinued.' Microsoft recommends migrating to the 'Settings' app. System ...

Microsoft wants to replace the Control Panel with the Settings app, but this is a plan the tech giant has had since the early 2010s and the ‘when’ is still uncertain. After nearly 40 years of service ...

Regarding the Windows Control Panel, which was announced to be 'discontinued' on Microsoft's official website, the text on the official page has changed and the word 'discontinued' has been removed.

Microsoft is transferring more functions from the old Control Panel with its outdated interface to the more modern Settings app. The company is currently testing the move in preview build 26276 for ...

Since the debut of Windows 8 in 2012, Microsoft has been eager to replace the aged Control Panel with the newer Settings app. The transition so far has been slow and gradual. Based on a couple of ...

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 ...

But Microsoft is encouraging people to "use the Settings app, whenever possible" since that will soon be the only option. As we wrote in our 2015 guide, the Control Panel allows you to add or remove ...

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 ...

We've never seen the source, but we can safely assume that Microsoft Windows' codebase is an absolutely sprawling spaghetti code mess. We say that because the venerable OS still includes elements ...