Microsoft shifts another Windows 11 feature to Settings from the Control Panel — but I expect the latter will still be with us in the 2030s.

Microsoft is adding the ability to rename your user account to the Windows 11 Settings app, ported over from the legacy Control Panel.

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Members of the Windows 1.0 team at their 40-year reunion this week. L-R, kneeling/sitting: Joe Barello, Ed Mills, Tandy Trower, Mark Cliggett, Steve Ballmer (holding a Windows 1.0 screenshot) and Don ...

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Update 10/17/25: Microsoft fixes the bug using a KIR (Known Issue Rollback) update. More information added to end of story. Microsoft's October Windows 11 updates have broken the "localhost" ...

Wondering where the Control Panel has gone in the shiny new world of Windows 11? While the Settings app takes center stage in the latest Windows edition, the classic Control Panel hasn’t been retired.

TL;DR: Windows 11 build 26200.5742 continues the gradual migration of legacy Control Panel features to the Settings app. In this preview release, Microsoft has shifted across some time and ...

SAP SE today addressed two newly disclosed vulnerabilities in its SAP Graphical User Interface client applications following their discovery in coordinated research by Pathlock Inc. and Fortinet Inc.