I kid you not, we wrote these words in 2014: Microsoft has tried to dumb down its Control Panel with a simple UI over the years, rather than a list of options, but there’s still a number of settings ...

Microsoft is slowly transitioning mouse properties options from Control Panel to Settings. @PhantomOfEarth found the change in a beta version, showcasing the move's progress. The transition reaffirms ...

Microsoft has removed another piece of functionality from the Control Panel in Windows 11, redirecting folks heading to the Fonts section to its equivalent in the Settings app. The old-style Control ...

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 ...

Microsoft: Control Panel Is Sticking Around, But Settings App Is Preferred Microsoft quietly updates its settings page to swap the word 'deprecated' for 'migrated' as it relates to Control Panel. But ...

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 ...

What just happened? The Control Panel has been an essential component of Microsoft Windows for decades, and was originally introduced in Windows 1.0 in the mid-80s. However, its days are numbered as ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Rumors of the death of the Control Panel have been greatly exaggerated. Rumors of the death of the Control Panel ...

I need to set the membership of local groups on our clients. Specifically I need to ensure that a domain group is a member of local Administrators on a set of clients. These clients are a mix of ...

And Microsoft’s adding your phone app notifications to the Start Menu. And Microsoft’s adding your phone app notifications to the Start Menu. is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who ...