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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

How to add direct Control Panel access in Windows 11 desktop Your email has been sent Since the release of the Windows 10 Creators Update in 2017, Microsoft has systematically marginalized the ...

An internal build of Windows 11 had a hidden “Soundscape” page, presumably to replace the ‘Sounds’ settings in the Control Panel. Although the Soundscape page isn’t populated or even present in test ...

Microsoft has been working on moving Control Panel features to its Settings UI in Windows for more than 10 years, but a new support note has got some speculating the Control Panel might finally be ...

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 ...

Microsoft has backpedaled its decision to forcefully redirect users from the Network Connections (ncpa.cpl) control panel to the Advanced Network Settings screen in Windows 11 preview builds.

Microsoft appears to be moving mouse options over from the legacy Control Panel to the Settings app We don’t know if this ...

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 ...