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

Windows 8’s PC Settings app (2012). (Source: softpedia.com) Although the Control Panel remained in Windows 8 as well, the course had been set.

Windows 11 is a great operating system, but not everyone has to like how it looks out of the box. Here's how you can change Windows Control Panel's fate sealed, as Microsoft finally confirms ...

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 ...

One of those is the venerable Control Panel; while earlier versions of Windows had a Control Panel, they weren't quite like the one that's made its way from Windows 95 all the way to Windows 11 today.

A final restart of Windows is not necessary. If you now right-click on the desktop and go to “Show more options,” the new “Control Panel” entry will appear in the menu.

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.

The Control Panel first appeared in Windows 1.0 so it’s about as legacy as it gets. The Settings app, on the other hand, appeared in 2012 and was introduced with a bare-bones set of features ...