Microsoft is adding the ability to rename your user account to the Windows 11 Settings app, ported over from the legacy Control Panel.

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 ...

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 ...

Windows 11 hides a maze of settings behind the modern Settings app and the older Control Panel, which can turn simple tweaks into a scavenger hunt. Power users have quietly relied on a shortcut that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After massive news last week saw significant attention from the public, Microsoft is now clarifying that it is not removing the Control Panel and its functionalities in the Windows operating system.

As Microsoft updates and improves Windows, it is also removing features it no longer finds useful. These features are added to a list of deprecated Windows functions. The latest addition to this list ...

Microsoft is updating the mouse settings in Windows 11, as seen in the recent Windows Server Build 26376. This build now shows all mouse properties in the Settings app, which will likely be included ...

When Windows 10 launched, its new Settings app was slated to eventually take over for the Windows Control Panel—and yet that conglomeration of settings is still well alive and kicking. Talk of its ...