Microsoft Drops Control Panel in Windows 11

Earlier this year, Microsoft developers made a number of changes to the settings section. Windows 11to make many of the system's features much more accessible. This month, they began testing even more ways to replace features that have always been available only through the Control Panel.

• In new test versions of Windows 11, Microsoft moved advanced network settings to a new system page the Settings application, which includes settings for sharing folders, printers, and network options. detection.
• Certain network and device settings entry points in Windows 11 now also redirect to the Settings app instead of forcing the user to go to Control Panel.
• Also in the "Settings" there are links to the sections of the "Control Panel" used to uninstall applications.
• The section for removing Windows updates in the latest version of the system has also become part of the "Settings".

Microsoft describes these changes as an ongoing effort to migrate all important settings into a system application of the same name. Obviously, the company is striving to optimize this area of ​​Windows and ultimately make the "Control Panel" completely unnecessary.

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