Microsoft has been hemorrhaging the Windows Control Panel for several years. More and more functions are migrating to the operating system’s “Settings.” However, some options can still only be ...

This could mean quicker updates to Settings.

Microsoft is testing Project Odeon, a Settings app delivered through the Store. I tried it, and the Control Panel is far from ...

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 ...

Project Odeon, a Microsoft Store app with the Settings icon, hints that Windows 11 Settings could update outside Windows ...

UPDATE: Aug. 26, 2024, 4:37 p.m. 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 ...

The Control Panel is a trusty, rusty old friend for a lot of us Windows users, going all the way back to the operating system’s original release in the 1980s. But Microsoft has been trying to get rid ...

Rumors of the death of the Control Panel have been greatly exaggerated. Rumors of the death of the Control Panel have been greatly exaggerated. is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has ...

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 process ...

Even while working full-time, he continued contributing as an editor-at-large, a role he has held for more than 7 years. A ...