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Windows has become a maze of control panels, and it's making basic maintenance harder

Control Panel? Did you mean Settings? Or did you mean to run a Bing search?
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Another blow to Windows 11’s Control Panel as Microsoft pushes more settings migrations

Microsoft is moving more mouse settings (like pointer trails and hide while typing) from the Control Panel to the Settings app in Windows 11 Dev and Beta builds. The new options are hidden by default, ...
The Verge

Microsoft isn’t removing the Control Panel from Windows anytime soon

Rumors of the death of the Control Panel have been greatly exaggerated. Rumors of the death of the Control Panel have been greatly exaggerated. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been ...
TechSpot

Microsoft confirms (then negates) it is finally killing the Windows Control Panel in favor of the Settings app

What just happened? The Control Panel has been an essential component of Microsoft Windows for decades, and was originally introduced in Windows 1.0 in the mid-80s. However, its days are numbered as ...
The Verge

Windows 11 is finally getting mouse settings that let you avoid the Control Panel

You will soon be able to disable ‘enhance pointer precision’ and flip your mouse scrolling direction easily. You will soon be able to disable ‘enhance pointer precision’ and flip your mouse scrolling ...