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    Microsoft to replace Control Panel with Windows 10 Settings app

    Microsoft to replace Control Panel with Windows 10 Settings app


    Posted: 18 Mar 2015

    Windows 10 (as well as Windows 8) provides users with two ways to access settings, the traditional Control Panel with access to various functions and tools, as well as the new Modern UI Settings app. The former is the more advanced option, but Microsoft is moving away from the familiar Control Panel in favor of the Settings app.

    According to Microsoft's Gabriel Aul, the company plans to replace the Control Panel with the Settings app "in time", slowly migrating across the numerous tools.


    Read more: Microsoft to replace the traditional Control Panel with the Windows 10 Settings app | Windows Central
    Brink's Avatar Posted By: Brink
    18 Mar 2015


  1. Lee
    Posts : 4,793
    OS X, Win 10
       #1

    Hmmm. . . not sure this is all that important information at this point especially sense it was brought up before, albeit there will be those who think that it will be totally stupid because it will confuse the . . . out of the average user. . .:)
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  2. Posts : 3,257
    Windows 10 Pro
       #2

    Well, probably because people keep filing bug reports about having two places for settings. And probably because every review of Windows 8, 8.1 and 10 makes a point of calling it out and talking about how MS can't get its act together.
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  3. Posts : 7,128
    Windows 10 Pro Insider
       #3

    As long as I can find what I'm looking for it doesn't matter to me.
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  4. Posts : 376
    Windows 10.0.19043.2006
       #4

    The article doesn't offer an explanation. What purpose does replacing Control Panel with the Settings app serve?
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  5. Posts : 22,740
    Windows 10 Home x64
       #5

    Victek said:
    The article doesn't offer an explanation. What purpose does replacing Control Panel with the Settings app serve?
    Centralize all of the settings in one place for all Win10 platforms.
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  6. Posts : 68,679
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    Thread Starter
       #6

    In addition, the Settings app is more touch friendly.
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  7. Posts : 1,811
    W7 Ultimate SP1 (64 bit), LM 19.2 MATE (64 bit), W10 Home 1703 (64 bit), W10 Pro 1703 (64 bit) VM
       #7

    If they are going to do it, why don't they just do it and get it over with?

    They've been d******* around with this since W8.
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  8. whs
    Posts : 1,935
    Windows 7
       #8

    They think that touch is the future and don't really care what the desktop customers think. Just another indication that the traditional desktop user is getting the short end of the stick.
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  9. Posts : 28,672
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       #9

    whs said:
    They think that touch is the future and don't really care what the desktop customers think. Just another indication that the traditional desktop user is getting the short end of the stick.
    We will be lucky to get a stick much less a short end of one.LOL
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