Does anyone else find the two separate ways to configure system settings incredibly annoying? Don't get me wrong, it's been flawed since Windows 8, but at least in 8 and 8.1, the Settings app only ...

Something has been bothering me about Windows for quite some time. Chances are, it's been bothering you, too. In Window 8.1 and Windows 10, we have both the old Control Panel and the new Settings user ...

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’s modernization of the Windows UI has been a long, winding road culminating in the sleek appearance of Windows 11. This included a redesigned Settings app with a completely overhauled nested ...

Microsoft is gradually moving control panel features to settings in Windows 11. The latest shift involves Time & Language options being transferred. PhantomOfEarth discovers hidden changes and ...

Windows 10 (as well as Windows 8) provides users with two ways to access settings, the traditional Control Panel with access to various functions and tools, as well as the new Modern UI Settings app.

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 ...

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 ...