Microsoft is adding the ability to rename your user account to the Windows 11 Settings app, ported over from the legacy Control Panel.

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 ...

An internal build of Windows 11 had a hidden “Soundscape” page, presumably to replace the ‘Sounds’ settings in the Control Panel. Although the Soundscape page isn’t populated or even present in test ...

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 ...

Since the debut of Windows 8 in 2012, Microsoft has been eager to replace the aged Control Panel with the newer Settings app. The transition so far has been slow and gradual. Based on a couple of ...

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 ...

You will soon have fewer reasons to open the old Control Panel in Windows 11 as Microsoft is moving more mouse options to the Settings app. Windows 11's Settings app is a much better place than it ...

The Control Panel is a trusty, rusty old friend for a lot of us Windows users, going all the way back to the operating system’s original release in the 1980s. But Microsoft has been trying to get rid ...