Greg Shultz wonders why Control Panel is still in Windows 10 when Settings is a far better choice. He fears this mess will continue to be an issue in the Windows 10 GA release.

Control Panel applets are being simplified as Microsoft is moving them into the redesigned Settings app, but the transition could be smoother.

Microsoft has tried to dumb down its Control Panel with a simple UI over the years, rather than a list of options, but there’s still a number of settings that don’t exist in the new PC Settings app.

With the Control Panel, you can add or remove software/hardware, administer users' accounts, take care of you security settings, change how Windows looks and acts, and a lot more. It's powerful stuff.

Learn how to open or run Control Panel as Administrator in elevated mode in Windows 11/10 using any one of these two methods.

Control Panel isn’t dead yet—but the System applet is looking nervous It's as if millions of sysadmins cried out and suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

If you miss the Start menu in Windows 8 largely because of the easy path it provided to the Control Panel, there are three keyboard shortcuts you need to know.