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 ...

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 ...

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.

The Control Panel has been used for many years as a setting change app for Windows, but in Windows 8, a modern app called 'PC Settings' was introduced that allows you to change some settings, and ...

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.

Previously, this only worked in a list within the Control Panel, in which you had to insert alternative designs using a cursor file. In the Settings app, the adjustments are clearer.

The Control Panel is a rusty old part of Windows 11 that has been superseded by the Settings app, although they’re effectively the same thing – just a whole bunch of settings.

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.