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

Many Windows users still prefer the Control Panel interface to the Settings one, though. It offers up a lot of settings in an easy to use interface where you don’t have to dig into multiple ...

Here's the Keyboard control panel from Windows NT 4.0. Andrew Cunningham Aside from some updated Windows Vista-era icons, the design of the modern Keyboards panel is identical. Andrew Cunningham ...

Microsoft is moving more settings from Control Panel over to the main Settings app in Windows 11. It’s part of an ongoing effort to get rid of the Control Panel and modernize Windows.

Still, the nearly 40 year old feature has existed in some form since 1985 when Windows 1.0 appeared. However, Microsoft has never put it down in writing that Control Panel would disappear.

Microsoft first introduced the Settings app with the release of Windows 8, way back in 2012. Since then, the software giant has made slow progress in migrating settings from the Control Panel to ...

There, type in "control panel" and click "OK," and it should open. In newer versions of Windows 10, many functions of the Task Manager have been replaced by the Settings app.

Microsoft moved several options from the Control Panel to the Settings app in a recent Insider build of Windows 11. An ongoing process to move options to the Settings app began in Windows 8.

Fortunately for us, adding direct access to the Control Panel in Windows 11 Desktop doesn’t involve any edits of the Windows Registry file or any other complicated trick or obscure system tweak.

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.

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.

Windows 11’s latest preview build, version 22523, introduces key changes as part of the company’s “ongoing effort to bring over settings from Control Panel into the Settings app.” ...