XDA Developers on MSN

Microsoft needs to stop phasing out Control Panel

Control Panel has been around since the days of Windows 95, allowing us to configure every tiny aspect of Windows. However, ...
MUO on MSN

Microsoft keeps hiding Control Panel, but it's still necessary for these 6 vital tasks

Due to storage considerations, Windows doesn't enable System Protection by default. That means you'll need to turn it on ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft backtracks on deprecating the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel

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 ...
TweakTown

Microsoft herds more Control Panel options into Windows 11's Settings app where they should be

TL;DR: Windows 11 build 26200.5742 continues the gradual migration of legacy Control Panel features to the Settings app. In this preview release, Microsoft has shifted across some time and ...
Neowin

Microsoft moves more Control Panel elements to the Settings app in Windows 110 0

This week, Microsoft dropped plenty of Windows 11 preview builds and non-security updates. Some of them were quite big, like the one for Windows 11 version 24H2, which introduced several new ...
HotHardware

Say Goodbye To Windows Control Panel, So What's Next?

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 ...