The power user may finally be getting the GUI control hub they have always wanted.

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 ...

The Settings app handles the basics fine, but these tweaks still send you straight back to the Control Panel ...

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 ...

The Control Panel has been a part of Windows since Windows 1.0. However, as Windows 11 has reached more than half a billion devices, Microsoft is aiming to fine-tune the features in Windows 11 to ...

NVIDIA is retiring its classic Control Panel after two decades and moving the same GPUs settings into the official NVIDIA app that debuted in 2024. The company confirmed the shift in the release notes ...

Microsoft continues to slowly migrate Control Panel elements to the Settings app. Certain keyboard settings received a modern overhaul in the latest Windows 11 preview builds. @Phantomofearh on X ...

Microsoft has removed another piece of functionality from the Control Panel in Windows 11, redirecting folks heading to the Fonts section to its equivalent in the Settings app. The old-style Control ...

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 ...

Nvidia is retiring its classic Control Panel for GeForce users, moving driver, display, and 3D settings into the Nvidia app.

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 ...

And Microsoft’s adding your phone app notifications to the Start Menu. And Microsoft’s adding your phone app notifications to the Start Menu. is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who ...