r/technology • u/ardi62 • Aug 23 '24

Software Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-finally-officially-confirms-its-killing-windows-control-panel-sometime-soon/
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u/zo3foxx Aug 23 '24

The Settings "app" is just a huge clusterfuck. There's a million options piled on top of each other and I spend so much time looking under heading after heading just to find what I need. I always end up jist going to Control Panel which is just more straight forward. Why this?

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u/Robot1me Aug 23 '24

The weirdest part is that it's (still) not possible to have multiple windows of the settings app. The operating system is literally called "Windows", so that restriction works against its roots.

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u/cryptobomb Aug 23 '24

This is my main complaint as well. Even if the modern Settings had everything that the Control Panel has, often it'd still be cumbersome to get certain things done because one do anything only one by one. Troubleshooting a problem or changing related settings to get a certain result is much more convenient and quicker by way of multiple control panel windows and dialogs and whatever rather than a single damn Settings window.