The Windows Control Panel allows you to control all the settings for your computer. Microsoft is planning to move all these controls over to Windows Settings, but I guess that will still take some ...

You might have heard about Microsoft killing the classic Control Panel in Windows 11. The idea is to move items in the Control Panel to the Settings app. While that has been happening incrementally ...

Due to storage considerations, Windows doesn't enable System Protection by default. That means you'll need to turn it on manually. And even today, configuring, enabling, or using System Restore still ...

How to add Control Panel access to File Explorer in Windows 11 Your email has been sent Under normal operating conditions, users and even administrators do not need to access the old Windows Control ...

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This is a problem I had on the Windows 7 RC, and today with a clean install of Windows 7 Home Premium x86. <BR><BR>Whenever I go into the control panel and click an icon like "Programs and Features" ...

Microsoft Windows has had a Control Panel feature for nearly four decades. The first version debuted with Windows 1.0 in 1985 as a tool for viewing and changing system settings, and it remained the ...

Yeah. If they want to deprecate it, they need to replace its functionality first. I find the new settings panel to be all but useless about ~90% of the time. It can't be THAT hard for a company the ...

We've never seen the source, but we can safely assume that Microsoft Windows' codebase is an absolutely sprawling spaghetti code mess. We say that because the venerable OS still includes elements ...

To open the Control Panel, it is best to type control in the search field of the taskbar and click on the entry in the hit list. But there’s an even easier way: You can also add a link to the Control ...