Something has been bothering me about Windows for quite some time. Chances are, it's been bothering you, too. In Window 8.1 and Windows 10, we have both the old Control Panel and the new Settings user ...

Windows 10 is trying to achieve the impossible; please everyone. The redesigned Settings app is a hotspot of this balancing act. Microsoft is challenged to make system controls accessible, even on ...

Does anyone else find the two separate ways to configure system settings incredibly annoying? Don't get me wrong, it's been flawed since Windows 8, but at least in 8 and 8.1, the Settings app only ...

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. Advanced ...

In 2025, Microsoft unveiled significant enhancements to the Windows 11 Settings app, incorporating design upgrades and around 16 new features, while bridging the gap with the Control Panel—ushering in ...

The Control Panel has been a part of Windows since Windows 1.0. However, as Windows 11 has reached more than half a billion devices, Microsoft is aiming to fine-tune the features in Windows 11 to ...

Update (3/28/2020): More information has come to light on the specifics of what MS is changing. As of this writing, only the "System" applet appears to be impacted. As Jim Salter points out at Ars ...

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 ...