Your old iPad or Android tablet can be your new smart home panel - here's how ...

User Account Control (UAC) helps prevent unauthorized changes. We don't recommend switching it off. Using the Control Panel leaves little room for error vs. editing ...

Microsoft is actively migrating 'all the old Control Panel controls into the modern Settings apps,' paving the way for the ...

Speaking to Windows users on X this week, Microsoft's Director of Design, March Rogers, said the company is working to ...

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

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 ...

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 correspondent and author of Notepad, who has ...

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

The new plug-in version of Brilliant’s wired smart switch is simpler to install and just as easy to use. But still-limited integrations keep it from being truly brilliant. If you buy something from a ...

My favorite Windows Settings routine is inverting my mouse scroll- a setting that as far as I can tell is still buried in the registry and whose path changes if you reconnect USB. Or you change it in ...