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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?
The Verge

Microsoft isn’t removing the Control Panel from Windows anytime soon

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 ...
TweakTown

Microsoft herds more Control Panel options into Windows 11's Settings app where they should be

TL;DR: Windows 11 build 26200.5742 continues the gradual migration of legacy Control Panel features to the Settings app. In this preview release, Microsoft has shifted across some time and ...
TechSpot

Microsoft confirms (then negates) it is finally killing the Windows Control Panel in favor of the Settings app

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 ...
Neowin

You will soon have fewer reasons to open Control Panel in Windows 11You will soon have fewer reasons to open Control Panel in Windows 110 0

Microsoft is making additional changes to Windows 11 and its Settings app, giving you fewer reasons to open the old Control Panel. Good news: more Control Panel bits are making their way to the ...