• Settings

    WINDOWS 11

    Ed Tittel

    By Ed Tittel

    The Settings app in Windows 11 remains endlessly under development, with the transition from Control Panel and Microsoft Management consoles far from complete.

    With the introduction of Windows 8, Microsoft began a slow and deliberate changeover in how setup, configuration, and related settings are handled. In this first of a series of stories about the Settings app and Control Panel, we’ll take a long, hard look at Settings and describe where Control Panel still appears under the Settings umbrella.

    Surprisingly, I must give Microsoft due credit. In a close examination of Control Panel holdovers that appear occasionally under the Settings umbrella, the number of such occurrences is substantially lower than I believed when I began this investigation.

    Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.19.0, 2024-05-06).