The Control Panel is a trusty, rusty old friend for a lot of us Windows users, going all the way back to the operating system’s original release in the 1980s. But Microsoft has been trying to get rid ...

Microsoft has invested heavily in increasing the security of Windows. The firewall, the automatically activated antivirus program, various security functions for protection against boot viruses and ...

The latest Windows 11 update targets a tool that's been around since 1985, and the changes could signal the end for the iconic component. While the OS is worlds apart from ancestor operating systems, ...

Update (3/28/2020): More information has come to light on the specifics of what MS is changing. As of this writing, only the "System" applet appears to be impacted. As Jim Salter points out at Ars ...

Yeah. If they want to deprecate it, they need to replace its functionality first. I find the new settings panel to be all but useless about ~90% of the time. It can't be THAT hard for a company the ...