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Zac Bowden

The Windows Control Panel is one step closer to death as account rename option makes its way to Windows 11's Settings app

Control Panel on Windows 11.

Microsoft has been slowly moving to iradicate the Control Panel from Windows for well over a decade at this point. It began with Windows 8 in 2012, and has slowly progressed through Windows 10 and now Windows 11, slowly but surely moving over legacy settings and options to the modern "Settings" app available today.

Control Panel is still available on Windows 11, but it's certainly not as capable as it used to be. That's because the majority of settings you need to configure on Windows are now in the modern app, with just a handful of settings still present in Control Panel.

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