Once the nerve center of Windows operating systems, the Control Panel and its multitude of applets has its roots in the earliest versions of Windows. From here users could use these configuration ...

Migration to the Setting app is still going on.

Here's a fun exercise for any long time Windows users (like myself): Go and set a static IP for a network adaptor. Notice how it's exactly the same dialog box as it was in Windows 98? Spoiler: Look ...

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 ...

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It’s all to do with pesky printer and network drivers. It’s all to do with pesky printer and network drivers. is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things ...

Not having seen any screenshots of the new control panel I'm going to make some guesses on how it changes the experience: Tons of whitespace between on-screen elements. Having to scroll to see the ...