TL;DR: Windows 11 build 26200.5742 continues the gradual migration of legacy Control Panel features to the Settings app. In this preview release, Microsoft has shifted across some time and ...

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 ...

How to add direct Control Panel access in Windows 11 desktop Your email has been sent Since the release of the Windows 10 Creators Update in 2017, Microsoft has systematically marginalized the ...

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 ...

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 is moving more mouse settings (like pointer trails and hide while typing) from the Control Panel to the Settings app in Windows 11 Dev and Beta builds. The new options are hidden by default, ...

Microsoft has removed another piece of functionality from the Control Panel in Windows 11, redirecting folks heading to the Fonts section to its equivalent in the Settings app. The old-style Control ...

Windows 11 24H2 has a time zone bug, but Control Panel can solve it. Microsoft is working on fixing the bug, but Control ...

Last week it looked like Microsoft had confirmed that it was killing off the Control Panel and handing over the reins to the Settings app — a process that’s been in various phases of transition since ...

An internal build of Windows 11 had a hidden “Soundscape” page, presumably to replace the ‘Sounds’ settings in the Control Panel. Although the Soundscape page isn’t populated or even present in test ...