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 ...

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 ...

The Control Panel in Windows has literally been a part of the operating system since Windows 1.0, but Microsoft decided along the way that it should be replaced with something more modern. The thing ...