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 ...

An attacker or a rogue employee can create and register custom control panel items and use these files to bypass the Windows AppLocker security feature. AppLocker is a security service introduced with ...

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 ...

If you often open the Control Panel to access various tools and options, then you can add All Tasks and Disk Management to it on your Windows 11/10 computer so that you can access more features from ...

Once the nerve center of Windows operating systems, the Control Panel and its multitude of applets has its roots in the earliest versions of Windows. From here users could use these configuration ...

The official Windows support page has posted a notice that 'Control Panel will be discontinued.' Microsoft recommends migrating to the 'Settings' app. System ...

With the release of Windows 10 20H2, Microsoft is now preventing access to the venerable SYSTEM control panel and is instead redirecting users to the newly updated 'About' settings page. The SYSTEM ...

Windows only: Add any program on your system to your Windows Control Panel with YourCPL, a two-file utility that lets you put some of your more handy system tools into one place. YourCPL is actually ...