Will Settings eventually replace Control Panel?

Steve C said:

The Settings menu is fine in principle but frequently when MS moves a setting from the Control Panel to Settings they reduce the functionality and usability at the same time. It seems they are designing the Settings menu for idiots. Fortunately to date it has been possible to use the old Control Panel settings method if you know where to look.

MS doesn't like users to dabble too much in system and basic settings. I'm almost surprised they didn't dumb it down even more.

MrMii Win 10 said:

As much as I would hate to see it go, I'm certain that Control Panel will eventually give it's final farewells, but definitely not in the near future it looks like.

MS has been promising to replace the Control panel with Settings since W8.

Even after 6 years have passed, MS still hasn't been able to do it.

Some parts and dialogs hail from much older Windows, XP even.

What they could do, but likely won't, is keep everything in Control Panel as well as Settings. I personally won't ever give up CP. Although I see the slow migration from one to the other. You shouldn't do it all at once, people will be extremely lost. But at this point after six years, you'd think they would have more in Settings.

Perhaps some tech guru out there will come out with a utility to emulate the old functionality of CP, just like how Ivo created Classic Shell as a start menu replacement tool. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Mark Phelps said:

I don't have access to my Insider version right now, but I seem to remember that in one of the recent builds (maybe this last one, which I don't have installed), MS has already phased out Control Panel because I though there were posts from people indicating that it did not launch anymore. If that's the case, then it will already be gone in version 1803.

Yes, I remember that but it was just a bug (I hope).

Mark Phelps said:

I don't have access to my Insider version right now, but I seem to remember that in one of the recent builds (maybe this last one, which I don't have installed), MS has already phased out Control Panel because I though there were posts from people indicating that it did not launch anymore. If that's the case, then it will already be gone in version 1803.

I dearly hope that's a bug. That better be just a bug.

Steve C said:

The Settings menu is fine in principle but frequently when MS moves a setting from the Control Panel to Settings they reduce the functionality and usability at the same time. It seems they are designing the Settings menu for idiots. Fortunately to date it has been possible to use the old Control Panel settings method if you know where to look.

You are saying things that are not generally correct. The settings setup with the more common features, and there is usually an advanced option that links to the old CP dialogues. The Control Panel is only the interface to the various dialogues.

There is no dumbing down, just things rearranged differently.

Many of the advanced menus do not easily lend to modern menu settings so I expect those to remain as is but accessed via avanced options rather than the old control panel interface.

Nothing has changed really - it is largely a cosmetic change and long overdue as CP is a mess.