Miss the old XP Control Panel? You can get something close to it in Windows 7. But do you really want to?

The epic Windows 11 questline to dump the old Control Panel completely from Microsoft's desktop OS continues - but it's painfully slow progress.

With the right code and edits to the Registry File, you can add access to the Control Panel directly into Windows 11 File Explorer.

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 ...