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Scott Younker

Microsoft finally confirms Control Panel is going away — what you need to know

Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio 2 review unit on desk running Windows 11.

Control Panel may finally be seeing its last days as the Settings app will finally take precedence in Windows. The Settings app was first introduced back in 2012 with the launch of Windows 8, and it's been a slow migration from the long-lived Control Panel to Settings ever since. 

To be fair to Control Panel, the settings controller has been reported dead for years, and it has yet to be purged. Still, the nearly 40 year old feature has existed in some form since 1985 when Windows 1.0 appeared.

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