HE Windows Control Panel It has been with us since 1985. Its future began to get complicated with the launch of Windows 8 in 2012 and the decision by Microsoft to include a new tool called Settings, which gradually took over all the functions that until then had been carried out with Windows 8, the Control Panel.

In recent years the situation has become somewhat absurd: although the Settings tool was the main tool in both Windows 10 and Windows 11, the Control Panel was still there and although its use was decreasing, it remained valid for some users and scenarios.

Now Microsoft has announced:Control Panel disappears Choose the Settings app for a more modern and fluid experience.

The durability shown by the Control Panel is due to the fact that it allows us to solve the compatibility problems that Microsoft had to solve. The configuration tool takes over most of the system setup tasks that were previously part of the Control Panel.

The coexistence of both options was strange and worrying: the Control Panel was not even developed at the graphical interface level. It was one of the components They kept the old design language It caused Windows operating systems to “creak” in a certain way during startup, contrasting its appearance with other Windows 10 or Windows 11 applications.

Its expiration began to become apparent in 2021, when it became clear that the configuration tool did not stop gaining more and more options. In the Version Museum there is a good retrospective of the different versions of the Control Panel that have existed over the years.

Microsoft did not provide detailed explanation When will the Control Panel be removed?but it will likely benefit from one of the next major Windows 11 updates.

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