For almost ten years now, Battlestate Games has toiled away on Escape From Tarkov with the help of its community. The hardcore, realistic survival FPS game birthed the extraction shooter genre, paving ...

1 School of Mines, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, China 2 Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum Yulin Kekegai Coal Industry Limited, Yulin, China This study addresses the critical challenge ...

Editor's take: Microsoft has spent years trying to phase out the traditional Windows Control Panel. Since Windows 10, the company has pushed users toward a modernized settings interface, but the ...

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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 ...

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 ...

UPDATE: Aug. 26, 2024, 4:37 p.m. EDT Microsoft has amended its statement in the support document to say the following: "Many of the settings in Control Panel are in the process of being migrated to ...

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 either ...

The Control Panel has existed since Windows 1.0 in 1985 and is now being deprecated. Windows' Settings app will soon replace Control Panel, once all of the latter's remaining features are successfully ...

Microsoft didn't say when Control Panel will officially meet its demise. The next big update for Windows, 24H2, is scheduled for this fall, but Windows 12 is also reportedly on the horizon. Control ...