Microsoft may finally be removing the Windows Control Panel

Management Panel might lastly be faraway from Home windows 11, quickly. Right here we go once more, Microsoft has been migrating the Management Panel for practically a decade now.

As Neowin experiences, an replace to a doc on Microsoft’s help portal, filed below the System Configuration instruments states that “The Management Panel is within the technique of being deprecated in favor of the Settings app, which provides a extra trendy and streamlined expertise.”

It additionally goes on to clarify why the legacy app has not been eliminated to date. “Whereas the Management Panel nonetheless exists for compatibility causes and to offer entry to some settings that haven’t but migrated, you are inspired to make use of the Settings app, each time attainable.”

Technically, it does not say when the Management Panel goes away. Are we there but? This has been coming since 2015, when Microsoft had confirmed that the Settings app would supersede Management Panel. However, the basic model has survived the axe, although some modifications have been made to it, akin to eradicating the flexibility to uninstall updates from CP, it’s now solely attainable through the Settings app.

Home windows Settings app nonetheless has an extended method to go

As somebody who makes use of each Home windows 11 and macOS 14 every single day, I really feel just like the Settings app in each working methods are related, and they’re each trash. Positive, the Settings app permits you to discover what you want with the search bar. However that is not design, it is extra helpful on telephones than on computer systems. If the search does not present what a consumer wished, they should search once more, which is only a waste of time. You possibly can argue that it was designed for rookies, however any of the choices are buried below a number of menus, which makes it very troublesome to navigate.

I nonetheless choose modifying the community settings, or uninstalling packages through the Management Panel, it is a lot simpler to do these through CP. The Settings app nonetheless lacks many choices which are accessible in Management Panel, you could wish to learn Martin’s article about why the outdated Applications and Options nonetheless provides a greater expertise. Hopefully, customers will have the ability to use the registry editor for altering issues that the Settings app can not.

The great outdated Management Panel nonetheless works completely, perhaps it simply must be redesigned, I do not suppose it wants a refresh, however Microsoft desires every part to have a “fluent design, and mica impact, ooh!”. A pleasing UI and a practical app can co-exist, it is simply that the designs are inconsistent in a number of areas of the working system.

Oh, and as a reminder, the Redmond firm shall be eradicating three apps when Home windows 22H4 lands: Suggestions, Cortana and WordPad.

I am not opposing each change, I like what Microsoft did with Notepad, tabs, auto save, spell-check, these are improbable enhancements. However, eradicating helpful instruments and choices in favor of a half-baked concept is unhealthy, it looks like change for the sake of change. Talking of controversial issues, Microsoft is bringing Home windows Recall again in October.

What do you concentrate on the Settings app? Do you favor to make use of Management Panel?

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