{"id":909,"date":"2025-08-08T22:31:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/a-decade-later-windows-is-still-bringing-control-panel-features-to-the-settings-app\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T22:31:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:31:20","slug":"a-decade-later-windows-is-still-bringing-control-panel-features-to-the-settings-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/a-decade-later-windows-is-still-bringing-control-panel-features-to-the-settings-app\/","title":{"rendered":"A decade later, Windows is still bringing Control Panel features to the Settings app"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I kid you not, we wrote these words in 2014<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Microsoft has tried to dumb down its Control Panel with a simple UI over the years, rather than a list of options, but there\u2019s still a number of settings that don\u2019t exist in the new PC Settings app. \u201cWhy do I have to go the PC settings to forget a network and Control panel to change IP settings? Can\u2019t this all be done from a single place?\u201d It\u2019s a fair criticism, and one that Microsoft should look to address with Windows 10.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But the Control Panel still can\u2019t die<\/a>. The latest features to migrate, as of today\u2019s Technical Preview<\/a>: clock settings; time servers; formatting for time, number, and currency; UTF-8 language support toggle, keyboard character repeat delay, and cursor blink rate. You can also see mobile app notifications (not just texts and calls and photos) in the relatively recently added Phone Link section of the Start Menu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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