Wondering where the Control Panel has gone in the shiny new world of Windows 11? While the Settings app takes center stage in the latest Windows edition, the classic Control Panel hasn’t been retired.

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Editor's take: Microsoft has spent years trying to phase out the traditional Windows Control Panel. Since Windows 10, the company has pushed users toward a modernized settings interface, but the ...

Microsoft Defender has been flagging Winring0 in system monitor and fan control apps on Windows 10 and 11 PCs, and it is not quite a false positive. For the last few days or so, various users online ...

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. Based on a couple of ...

What just happened? The Control Panel has been an essential component of Microsoft Windows for decades, and was originally introduced in Windows 1.0 in the mid-80s. However, its days are numbered as ...

Microsoft took action after the news that the Control Panel was being removed from Windows that emerged last week. Accordingly, Microsoft updated its latest support note about Windows Configuration ...

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 ...

The Control Panel has existed since Windows 1.0 in 1985 and is now being deprecated. Windows' Settings app will soon replace Control Panel, once all of the latter's remaining features are successfully ...

In a move that marks the end of an era, Microsoft has officially confirmed that the iconic Windows Control Panel is “in the process of being deprecated in favor of the Settings app.” This decision ...