ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (WHAT THE TECH?) — “Find My” is a great antitheft, anti-loss feature to locate a lost or stolen iPhone and disable the phone but it can be turned off when stolen. What most people ...

Microsoft is slowly deprecating Control Panel in favor of the Settings app, but the transition is taking time. Essential elements like Device Manager and power options still need to be fully ...

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 ...

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 ...

Phishing emails distributing the QBot malware are using a DLL hijacking flaw in the Windows 10 Control Panel to infect computers, likely as an attempt to evade detection by security software. DLL ...

Windows 11 hides a maze of settings behind the modern Settings app and the older Control Panel, which can turn simple tweaks into a scavenger hunt. Power users have quietly relied on a shortcut that ...

The Control Panel has been part of Windows since 1985, making it nearly 40 years old—and even the 'new' Settings app was introduced in 2012 with Windows 8. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) ...

I need to set the membership of local groups on our clients. Specifically I need to ensure that a domain group is a member of local Administrators on a set of clients. These clients are a mix of ...

Rumors of the death of the Control Panel have been greatly exaggerated. Rumors of the death of the Control Panel have been greatly exaggerated. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been ...