Something has been bothering me about Windows for quite some time. Chances are, it's been bothering you, too. In Window 8.1 and Windows 10, we have both the old Control Panel and the new Settings user ...

In Windows 8, Microsoft created an additional PC Settings section that you can use to customize some settings related to the Windows Start Screen and other basic settings. If you wish to gain access ...

Windows 10 is trying to achieve the impossible; please everyone. The redesigned Settings app is a hotspot of this balancing act. Microsoft is challenged to make system controls accessible, even on ...

Tech giant Microsoft has moved several options from the Control Panel to the Settings app in a recent Insider build of Windows 11. According to Windows Central, the company started shifting options ...

Microsoft doesn't want to break printer and device drivers.

Does anyone else find the two separate ways to configure system settings incredibly annoying? Don't get me wrong, it's been flawed since Windows 8, but at least in 8 and 8.1, the Settings app only ...

Microsoft has been trying to eliminate the traditional Control Panel by slowly moving options to the new Settings app, since the launch of Windows 8. The company has moved several settings since then ...

Microsoft continues migrating Control Panel to Settings, but legacy hardware and drivers slow progress in Windows 11.

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 ...