Please note: This item is from our archives and was published in 2017. It is provided for historical reference. The content may be out of date and links may no longer function. A. One of the most ...

Update (3/28/2020): More information has come to light on the specifics of what MS is changing. As of this writing, only the "System" applet appears to be impacted. As Jim Salter points out at Ars ...

Windows 10 is a welcome return to the Windows operating system that many of us missed after Microsoft implemented radical design changes in Windows 8. Win10 has been praised for going back to 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 ...

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 ...