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Windows has become a maze of control panels, and it's making basic maintenance harder

Control Panel? Did you mean Settings? Or did you mean to run a Bing search?

Windows 11 is finally fixing two of its most hated design choices

Since launch, Windows 11 users have asked for a Taskbar that can be moved around the screen, a better Start menu, improved ...
ZDNet

Microsoft isn't killing Windows Control Panel after all

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 ...
Windows Central

The Windows Control Panel is one step closer to death as account rename option makes its way to Windows 11's Settings app

Microsoft has been slowly moving to iradicate the Control Panel from Windows for well over a decade at this point. It began with Windows 8 in 2012, and has slowly progressed through Windows 10 and now ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft backtracks on deprecating the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel

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 ...