Here's a fun exercise for any long time Windows users (like myself): Go and set a static IP for a network adaptor. Notice how it's exactly the same dialog box as it was in Windows 98? Spoiler: Look ...

When I started using a computer about 15 years ago, one of the first things my instructor taught me was how to navigate the Control Panel. This was during the Windows XP era, and it was the only place ...

Windows 11 still can't live without these XP-era tools.

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 the ...

Not having seen any screenshots of the new control panel I'm going to make some guesses on how it changes the experience: Tons of whitespace between on-screen elements. Having to scroll to see the ...

Nvidia is ending default installation of the legacy Control Panel with GeForce driver version 610.47. The old UI has been around since 2006, but Nvidia says its actively supported GeForce features ...