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Windows 10’s Control Panel Will Go Away, Could Survive in RTM

It will be offered until PC settings take over all options

Jun 23, 2015 05:50 GMT  ·  By
This is the classic Control Panel in Windows 7
   This is the classic Control Panel in Windows 7

One of the changes that Microsoft is making in Windows 10 is the gradual replacement of the traditional Control Panel with the new PC settings, which will provide a similar look and feel on all devices running the new operating system, including desktops and smartphones.

The new PC settings menu isn’t only better organized and easier to use than the classic Control Panel, but it also features support for touch, so it can be accessed by those with tablets and touch-capable displays too.

Gabriel Aul, head of the Windows Insider program, confirmed that the Control Panel is projected to be replaced by the new Settings screen sometime in the future, but it “will stay until Settings has all viable setting options supported.”

The fact that Microsoft plans to remove the classic Control Panel and replace it with Settings isn’t new, but now it seems like the CP will still be offered in the RTM version of Windows 10 if Microsoft doesn’t move fast enough to bring all is features in the Settings screen in about a month.

Very popular user request

Surprisingly, while some find the new Settings menu less intuitive than the old Control Panel, which they’re already familiar with, others asked Microsoft to move everything to the touch-optimized Metro-based interface.

A user request posted on UserVoice and asking Microsoft to “merge PC settings and Control Panel” has more than 18,000 votes and is currently one of the most successful suggestions so far.

“Most of the options are redundant (present in both) and the options which are not confuse the users! Why can't there be a single place to control all the settings?” the request reads.

Windows 10 is projected to debut in approximately one month and Microsoft still has enough time to give up on the traditional Control Panel, but in case this doesn’t happen next month, expect it to go away when the first OS update comes out later this year.