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Microsoft continues to dismantle the Control Panel as another feature migrates to Settings

Microsoft is gradually moving Control Panel features to the Settings panel. Keyboard repetition settings are the latest feature to be migrated. The transition aims to replace the Control Panel with a ...
TechSpot

New Windows 11 beta brings more changes to Control Panel settings

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 ...
TweakTown

Microsoft herds more Control Panel options into Windows 11's Settings app where they should be

TL;DR: Windows 11 build 26200.5742 continues the gradual migration of legacy Control Panel features to the Settings app. In this preview release, Microsoft has shifted across some time and ...
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A decade later, Windows is still bringing Control Panel features to the Settings app

I kid you not, we wrote these words in 2014: Microsoft has tried to dumb down its Control Panel with a simple UI over the years, rather than a list of options, but there’s still a number of settings ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft backtracks on deprecating the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel

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 ...