Microsoft isn't killing Windows Control Panel after all The 40-year-old tool still seems to have plenty of life left, though certain settings will continue to be deprecated.

The Control Panel is a trusty, rusty old friend for a lot of us Windows users, going all the way back to the operating system’s original release in the 1980s. But Microsoft has been trying to ...

Microsoft has been working on moving Control Panel features to its Settings UI in Windows for more than 10 years, but a new support note has got some speculating the Control Panel might finally be ...

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 ...

This may not be a surprise for many Windows users. Since October 2020, Microsoft has been redirecting users away from the Control Panel, goading them to use the Settings app instead.

Microsoft isn’t removing the Control Panel from Windows imminently. After inaccurate reports, Microsoft has updated its support documents.

And while Microsoft eventually got rid of Charms, the Control Panel lived on alongside the Settings Menu in Windows 10 and 11 as features migrated to the newer app piece by piece.

If you're looking for a quick way to get to the Control Panel in Windows 11, here's how to add it to the context menu.

Microsoft recently released new Dev and Beta builds of Windows 11 to Insider testers. According to prolific build explorer "phantomofearth," the updates introduce another change to how ...

Some users miss the old Windows Control Panel, but the modern Settings app is frankly much better. Here's why it's time to let go.

If the Outlook mail icon is missing from Control Panel, you can try to open the mlcfg32 file through the Run console or modify Registry to addOutlook.