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The old Control Panel won’t be around forever ... to Microsoft to ask the company about the discovered delay in Windows 95 and 98, and whether it might be able to shed any light on what was ...
If Windows 95, 98, 2K, XP, Vista, or 7 had wasted desktop ... part of why it's difficult to retrofit Control Panel applications into whatever name Microsoft has for its UI at the moment.
The Windows 98 Control Panel. (Source: ToastyTech.com) It’s little wonder that for the longest time operating systems have settled for this approach, as it is intuitive, and individual items can ...
Last week, Microsoft mentioned in a support document that it was formally deprecating Windows' 39-year-old Control Panel applets. But following widespread reporting of the change, Microsoft has ...
Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. You may have read headlines last week about Microsoft removing the ...
Since the debut of Windows 8 in 2012, Microsoft has been eager to replace the aged Control Panel with the newer Settings app. The transition so far has been slow and gradual. Based on a couple of ...
Should we be worried about the Control Panel in Windows 11? It goes without saying that we don’t need to worry about Windows 9x versions anymore (Windows 95 and 98 are older than me).