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 ...

When I started using a computer about 15 years ago, one of the first things my instructor taught me was how to navigate the Control Panel. This was during the Windows XP era, and it was the only place ...

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 ...

In case you missed it, in a support document on Tuesday, Microsoft announced that it's in the process of phasing out the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...