With Windows 8, Microsoft set out to simplify the user experience for a new touch-centric world. That meant shoving the old-school Control Panel into the background and bringing a new touch-friendly ...

With the release of Windows 10 20H2, Microsoft is now preventing access to the venerable SYSTEM control panel and is instead redirecting users to the newly updated 'About' settings page. The SYSTEM ...

Finding and opening the Control Panel in Windows 11, 10, 8.1, and 7 is a handy skill in many scenarios. Here we reveal how to do it in a few steps quickly.

Microsoft has started testing the removal of the venerable System control panel on Windows 10 and instead redirecting users to the modern About page. The System control panel allows users to get a ...

What just happened? Microsoft is on a crusade to kill off any and all traces of "old Windows" in its latest Windows 10 operating system, and though the progress has been slow, the company took another ...

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