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Is the Control Panel disappearing from Windows? Explore Microsoft's approach and what this means for long-time users.
After Microsoft trending last week, it now clarifies that Windows' Control Panel is not going anywhere.
Latest Windows Insider Build puts time and language options in Settings Microsoft has continued its efforts to nudge users ...
Microsoft isn't killing Windows Control Panel after all The 40-year-old tool still seems to have plenty of life left, though certain settings will continue to be deprecated.
Microsoft officially says the Control Panel is not long for this world.
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 ...
The epic Windows 11 questline to dump the old Control Panel completely from Microsoft's desktop OS continues - but it's painfully slow progress.
Microsoft recently released new Dev and Beta builds of Windows 11 to Insider testers. According to prolific build explorer "phantomofearth," the updates introduce another change to how ...
Microsoft Windows has had a Control Panel feature for nearly four decades. The first version debuted with Windows 1.0 in 1985 as a tool for viewing and changing system settings, and it remained ...
Microsoft is thinking about discontinuing the classic Control Panel, but the new Settings app isn't quite ready yet.
If the Outlook mail icon is missing from Control Panel, you can try to open the mlcfg32 file through the Run console or modify Registry to addOutlook.