Microsoft moves a key feature from Control Panel to Settings — but Windows 11 still has a jarring identity crisis here

Microsoft shifts another Windows 11 feature to Settings from the Control Panel — but I expect the latter will still be with us in the 2030s.

The Control Panel on Windows 11 is one step closer to death

Microsoft is adding the ability to rename your user account to the Windows 11 Settings app, ported over from the legacy Control Panel.
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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 ...