The power user may finally be getting the GUI control hub they have always wanted.

After massive news last week saw significant attention from the public, Microsoft is now clarifying that it is not removing the Control Panel and its functionalities in the Windows operating system.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As Microsoft updates and improves Windows, it is also removing features it no longer finds useful. These features are added to a list of deprecated Windows functions. The latest addition to this list ...

Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) Share on Reddit (opens in a new window) Share on Hacker News (opens in a new window) Share on Flipboard (opens in a new ...

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 ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. The Control Panel is being replaced by the Settings app, according to recent update by Microsoft on its support blog that outlines all of the tools ...

(RTTNews) - Microsoft (MSFT) announced via a blog post that it is in the process of gradually retiring the traditional Control Panel, a long-standing feature of the Windows operating system, in favor ...