You may have read headlines last week about Microsoft removing the Control Panel from Windows soon, but the death of the Control Panel has been greatly exaggerated. The inaccurate reports stemmed ...

TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. What just happened? The Control Panel has been an essential component of Microsoft Windows for decades, and was originally introduced in ...

Control Panel may finally be seeing its last days as the Settings app will finally take precedence in Windows. The Settings app was first introduced back in 2012 with the launch of Windows 8 ...

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 ...

The Windows Control Panel has been a cornerstone of Windows since its debut in 1985 with Windows 1.0. Control Panel's interface has evolved dramatically throughout its 39-years history ...

Windows 11 and Windows 10 aren’t on the brink of seeing the Control Panel shuffling off into the sunset, Microsoft has clarified. As Ars Technica reports, this follows a string of articles last ...

UPDATE: Aug. 26, 2024, 4:37 PM EDT Microsoft has amended its statement in the support document to say the following: "Many of the settings in Control Panel are in the process of being migrated to ...

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 ...

Microsoft removed the word "deprecated" from its statement on the Control Panel, but how useful it will continue to be remains unknown. Credit: Microsoft Reading between the lines, that sounds ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft is set to retire the Control Panel in Windows 11, gradually moving its functions to the Settings app. Although Microsoft has not specified an exact timeline for this transition ...