Is the Control Panel disappearing from Windows? Explore Microsoft's approach and what this means for long-time users.

Microsoft officially says the Control Panel is not long for this world.

After Microsoft trending last week, it now clarifies that Windows' Control Panel is not going anywhere.

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 ...

In its announcement, Microsoft emphasized that while the Control Panel will still be accessible in the current versions of Windows, this is primarily to ensure compatibility for users who rely on ...

The Control Panel has been a staple in Windows for decades now, and it has garnered its fair share of fans. However, Microsoft would rather people use its shiny new Settings panel. The problem is ...

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 a… ...

Microsoft has officially confirmed that it will discontinue the Windows Control Panel app in favor of an app it introduced in Windows 8.

Microsoft has been working on moving Control Panel features to its Settings UI in Windows for more than 10 years, but a new support note has got some speculating the Control Panel might finally be ...

Microsoft has been trying to get rid of the Control Panel for over a decade now, seemingly because it uses an ancient interface that's been part of Windows for almost 40 years.

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 that don’t exist in the new PC Settings app.

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 ...