News Microsoft to kill Windows Control Panel in favor of Settings app

[Admin]

Microsoft confirms transition from Control Panel to Settings app.

Microsoft to kill Windows Control Panel in favor of Settings app : Read more

 

[ThomasKinsley]

I can't remember the last time I used Control Panel, but it feels like a real shame that it's going away.

 

[USAFRet]

As long as the same functions are available, it doesn't matter what it is called or looks like.

 

[punkncat]

I actually use Control Panel a lot during initial setup on a new install. I will be sad to see it go. I am sure they are doing this to make it just that little bit harder to delete things you don't want.

 

[TheSecondPower]

So Microsoft is finally going to merge the remaining featured into Settings? Right?

 

[JamesJones44]

So Microsoft is finally going to merge the remaining featured into Settings? Right?

Ha! I doubt it, I'm sure they will expect people who want to look at or modify the driver list to go into the registry or use a PS script.

 

[Dr3ams]

I've been using the God Mode for a while. All Windows settings alphabetically categorized in one folder.

If you don't have it, here's how to get it:
1. right click on the desktop and select "new folder".
2. rename folder to GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

That's it.

There's around 200 settings in the folder to use. Also, if you click "view" in the folder and then "tiles", the icons will show up similar to the way they are in the Control Panel.

 

[stonecarver]

Years ago Tom's had a thread that posted a script that you right clicked on the desktop and went to new than shortcut and once you had that on the desktop you named it the script and hit inter.

It made a short cut to a master control panel page that lists every nook and cranny of anything you could ever imagine and things you never knew you had control over. After you were done making the shortcut is read as God mode.

I made that God mode back in Windows XP days and have it on all my thumb drives and It just keeps working on every new version Windows puts out. Keep in mind must have been 15-20 years ago if the instructions are still floating out there or if googling it comes up.

IDIT: POST ABOVE TYPED FASTER THAN ME.

 

[stuff and nonesense]

As long as the same functions are available, it doesn't matter what it is called or looks like.

It does.. I have a number of remote PCs to look after, getting to the control panel through Win +R and asking the user to click on an icon is far easier than the “upgrade” presented by Win 11. Simplicity is better.

 

[jg.millirem]

I still find control panel apps easier to use than settings, which is often slow and clunky and has stuff buried too many levels deep.

 

[ingtar33]

I still find control panel apps easier to use than settings, which is often slow and clunky and has stuff buried too many levels deep.

correct. that's the biggest problem with the settings menu. it violates the basics of productive software design.

rule no.1, no deeper then 4 levels.

rule no.2, it shouldn't take you more then 3 clicks to find what you're looking for

can't do that with the settings menu currently. the rocks on the MS PR team to call the settings menu "streamlined"