Last week, Microsoft mentioned in a support document that it was formally deprecating Windows’ 39-year-old Control Panel applets. But following widespread reporting of the change, Microsoft has either ...

Migration to the Setting app is still going on.

We are gathered here today in solemn reverence to celebrate our old friend, the Nvidia Control Panel. Okay, so it's not actually dead. Nvidia has announced its "retirement", but we all know what that ...

Yeah. If they want to deprecate it, they need to replace its functionality first. I find the new settings panel to be all but useless about ~90% of the time. It can't be THAT hard for a company the ...

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Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Before there were Settings, there was Control Panel. The legacy interface for changing Windows settings or accessing hardware and network tools has been ...

The Control Panel has been part of Windows since 1985, making it nearly 40 years old—and even the 'new' Settings app was introduced in 2012 with Windows 8. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) ...

Microsoft is making additional changes to Windows 11 and its Settings app, giving you fewer reasons to open the old Control Panel. Good news: more Control Panel bits are making their way to the ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Microsoft's seemingly never-ending quest to migrate features from the legacy Control Panel to the Settings app in Windows 11 has taken another few small ...

Microsoft has backpedaled its decision to forcefully redirect users from the Network Connections (ncpa.cpl) control panel to the Advanced Network Settings screen in Windows 11 preview builds.