Windows is finally killing off the Control Panel

Why not keep it and just add all th missing settings into the new settings? Is it that bad if they keep it in? How much bigger the windows will get? If they wanna hide it, just hide it and let us unlock it with some command/shortcut. I just dont see the point of removing it. Not only im using it daily and im used to it.. but its actually feeling faster and better to use.

Yes, im faster with it.
 
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Microsoft really is directionless and has no idea what to do about Windows, do they?

In the last 2 weeks, we get 2 articles about how Microsoft recognizes that Windows is a broken mess and are rethinking it, and also planning to ditch web-based frameworks and go full native.

Then, as these news bring us a glimmer of hope for Windows' future, we get... this. Based on the previous articles, It'd make more sense to expect something like Windows engineers planning to ditch the settings app entirely and go back to the control panel. It would be the sane thing to do after all.

The settings app can be improved, but it will never be as practical and easy to use as the control panel. I also doubt they'll manage to import every single setting and tweak from all control panel applets to the settings app. Something somewhere will always be missing.

I also wonder what will happen to legacy software that install their own control panel applets.
 
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Title seems to be completely baseless.

For one, the engineer didn't "confirm plans to kill Windows Control panel". If anything, he confirmed that they can't do that, because that would break a lot of drivers/app.

Also, he was replying on a question specifically about network settings, and there's nothing in his reply what would suggest that anything he wrote had its scope extended beyond that (ie. network settings).
 
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penn919 said:
Microsoft's Windows seems to me like an outdated and directionless product. The entire platform is being carried by it's market share amassed in it's former years. Windows is pre-installed on almost all PCs and MS Office is THE standard. It's incredible how far early success can carry you despite anything else.
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To me Windows feels like an ex husband who was a really good and stable relationship for years but then started being controlling, abusive and a drunk deadbeat.
 
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It's One thing to make all control panel options available in settings... Which currently is not the case. Vs not be able to use control panel... We will see
 
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Sayak Biswas said:
You know there was recently news that someone had updated windows 7 to with latest security updates and drivers. I don't know how legit that is, but it sounds more attractive with news like this...
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I partly did this for my grandfather's Vostro laptop in February. (He also has an Inspiron with 10 but likes the Vostro.) It is the Simplix UpdatePack 7. For Windows 7 x64, it brought up the OS to December 2025. However, Windows 7's aging infrastructure won't run modern hardware.

arrowflash said:
Microsoft really is directionless and has no idea what to do about Windows, do they?

In the last 2 weeks, we get 2 articles about how Microsoft recognizes that Windows is a broken mess and are rethinking it, and also planning to ditch web-based frameworks and go full native.

Then, as these news bring us a glimmer of hope for Windows' future, we get... this. Based on the previous articles, It'd make more sense to expect something like Windows engineers planning to ditch the settings app entirely and go back to the control panel. It would be the sane thing to do after all.

The settings app can be improved, but it will never be as practical and easy to use as the control panel. I also doubt they'll manage to import every single setting and tweak from all control panel applets to the settings app. Something somewhere will always be missing.

I also wonder what will happen to legacy software that install their own control panel applets.
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I always felt that the Settings app had a mobile-like aim. There was nothing wrong with Control Panel, which, like the Start menu, is one of those signature touches of Windows, there from version 1.0. Remove these elements, and the identity of the OS is watered down.
 
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This would be fine if they actually bothered to re-implement half the settings it allowed access to but they seem incapable of doing this.
 
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I wonder how much breakage this will cause. Also, the CP is far more comprehensive.

I honestly doubt they will pull this off without removing quick and useful functionality found in the CP, but not the settings app. Why not just let people use what they want? MSlop out of touch as usual.

Glad I'm sticking with W10.
 
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It's One thing to make all control panel options available in settings... Which currently is not the case. Vs not be able to use control panel... We will see
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Yes, we will see. That's if they actually really try to do this. I doubt they can do it without breaking stuff. Removing some things and generally mess up W11 even more than it is.

If it proceeds it's going to fun reading all the rants about the screw ups which are sure to happen.

Edit: Prepare for more patches for patches...for patches.
 
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Good thing I can use COPILOT to code a replacement if I don't like the 100 OTHER tools already present that replace windows 11 garbage UI elements.
 
I couldnt write something here that would express the way I feel about this.... I asked AI to word it better and it didn't disappoint....


It is with considerable professional dismay that one must observe the remarkable capacity of Microslops development team to transform a well-regarded, functionally sound software solution into something so thoroughly divorced from the needs of its actual user base. Through what can only be described as a masterclass in self-referential decision-making, the team elected to crowdsource implementation direction from a pool of contributors whose collective insight appears to begin and end with their own internal assumptions — effectively consulting no one of meaningful relevance while maintaining the performance of inclusive engagement. The resulting product stands as a testament to what occurs when developers become so profoundly insulated from real-world use cases that they mistake their own preferences for user requirements, systematically dismantling everything that made the original solution effective and replacing it with an architecture that manages to be simultaneously over-engineered in its complexity and deficient in its utility. One would be hard-pressed to deliberately design a change management process more perfectly calibrated to produce an outcome so comprehensively misaligned with operational reality, yet here we are — the beneficiaries of a decision-making pipeline that appears to have bypassed every available feedback mechanism in favour of an iterative loop of internal validation that served only to reinforce the team's remarkable capacity for misjudgment.
 
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Suisam said:
I couldnt write something here that would express the way I feel about this.... I asked AI to word it better and it didn't disappoint....


It is with considerable professional dismay that one must observe the remarkable capacity of Microslops development team to transform a well-regarded, functionally sound software solution into something so thoroughly divorced from the needs of its actual user base. Through what can only be described as a masterclass in self-referential decision-making, the team elected to crowdsource implementation direction from a pool of contributors whose collective insight appears to begin and end with their own internal assumptions — effectively consulting no one of meaningful relevance while maintaining the performance of inclusive engagement. The resulting product stands as a testament to what occurs when developers become so profoundly insulated from real-world use cases that they mistake their own preferences for user requirements, systematically dismantling everything that made the original solution effective and replacing it with an architecture that manages to be simultaneously over-engineered in its complexity and deficient in its utility. One would be hard-pressed to deliberately design a change management process more perfectly calibrated to produce an outcome so comprehensively misaligned with operational reality, yet here we are — the beneficiaries of a decision-making pipeline that appears to have bypassed every available feedback mechanism in favour of an iterative loop of internal validation that served only to reinforce the team's remarkable capacity for misjudgment.
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Laughing as I type.

Love it. Absolutely deserves a like!!
 
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