Microsoft doesn't want to break printer and device drivers.

Microsoft continues migrating Control Panel to Settings, but legacy hardware and drivers slow progress in Windows 11.

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 ...

Microsoft continues to chip away at the venerable Windows 10 Control Panel by now testing the redirection of the 'Program and Features' control panel to the modern 'Apps & Features' Settings page.

Many people use the Hibernate option so that they can resume all the work very quickly. However, if the Hibernate option is missing or unavailable in the System Settings window in Control Panel, you ...

Once the nerve center of Windows operating systems, the Control Panel and its multitude of applets has its roots in the earliest versions of Windows. From here users could use these configuration ...

The Windows Control Panel allows you to control all the settings for your computer. Microsoft is planning to move all these controls over to Windows Settings, but I guess that will still take some ...

Microsoft is slowly deprecating Control Panel in favor of the Settings app, but the transition is taking time. Essential elements like Device Manager and power options still need to be fully ...

How to add Control Panel access to File Explorer in Windows 11 Your email has been sent Under normal operating conditions, users and even administrators do not need to access the old Windows Control ...

Rumors of the death of the Control Panel have been greatly exaggerated. Rumors of the death of the Control Panel have been greatly exaggerated. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been ...

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 ...