Editor's take: Microsoft has spent years trying to phase out the traditional Windows Control Panel. Since Windows 10, the company has pushed users toward a modernized settings interface, but the ...

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 ...

Microsoft has delayed the redesign of Control Panel because it doesn't want to break printer and device drivers. Several Control Panel features have already moved to Settings, but key legacy tools ...

Type gpedit.msc in Windows Start Menu Search Bar, hit Enter to open the Group Policy Editor. Navigate to User Configuration. Expand Administrative Templates > Click Control Panel > Show only specified ...

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 ...