Microsoft is moving more mouse settings (like pointer trails and hide while typing) from the Control Panel to the Settings app in Windows 11 Dev and Beta builds. The new options are hidden by default, ...

I could be wrong, but I think this is the first full explanation we’ve had from Microsoft about why it’s taken so long to get ...

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 ...

In 2020, we wrote, "Microsoft Might Kill the Classic Control Panel Soon," adding that to do so, it needed to fix the Settings menu that would be replacing it. A year later, we wrote that Microsoft was ...

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 ...