Here's a fun exercise for any long time Windows users (like myself): Go and set a static IP for a network adaptor. Notice how it's exactly the same dialog box as it was in Windows 98? Spoiler: Look ...

Once the nerve center of Windows operating systems, the Control Panel and its multitude of applets has its roots in the earliest versions of Windows. From here users could use these configuration ...

Windows XP has been out of support for over 12 years now. Despite that, people still run Windows XP, and many fondly remember it as one of the best Windows iterations to date. It wasn't the most ...

What just happened? The Control Panel has been an essential component of Microsoft Windows for decades, and was originally introduced in Windows 1.0 in the mid-80s. However, its days are numbered as ...

Microsoft Windows has had a Control Panel feature for nearly four decades. The first version debuted with Windows 1.0 in 1985 as a tool for viewing and changing system settings, and it remained the ...

Not having seen any screenshots of the new control panel I'm going to make some guesses on how it changes the experience: Tons of whitespace between on-screen elements. Having to scroll to see the ...