Greg Shultz wonders why Control Panel is still in Windows 10 when Settings is a far better choice. He fears this mess will continue to be an issue in the Windows 10 GA release.

When you open the Settings app, you can see that it blends well with Windows' modernized design. But when you open the ...

The Control Panel in Windows has literally been a part of the operating system since Windows 1.0, but Microsoft decided along ...

You can make Control Panel open in Category or All Items - Large or Small Icons View, using the UI or Registry in Windows 11/10.

Good news: more Control Panel bits are making their way to the Settings app, giving you fewer reasons to use the legacy UI that Microsoft buried deep inside its operating system.

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 equally, the somewhat archaic aesthetic and user interface of Control Panel means its days were always likely to be numbered. And the visual appeal and built-in instructions of the Settings ...

In the meantime, Control Panel still exists and is accessible. Someday it will die but today is not that day. There is no timeline for when Control Panel might finally disappear from Windows after ...

Brilliant's smart-home-agnostic control panel has made it easier to manage connected devices with its new plug-in model. Here's what I thought of the pricey new smart home hub.