Windows 11 gets new features for Settings app as Microsoft continues with its death by a thousand cuts for Control Panel

Date:
Tue, 19 Mar 2024 14:25:26 +0000

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Windows 11 should soon have more features in the Settings app including important choices for your laptop.

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Microsoft is slowly shifting the functionality of the old Control Panel thats still kicking about in Windows 11 to the Settings app, and some more features have just made this transition at least in test builds of the OS.

Windows Latest spotted this fresh activity in terms of shuffling features across, work that should benefit Windows 11 users when the 24H2 update is released later this year .

One move here is with the Power & Battery panel in the Settings app, which
now presents laptop users with the ability to change Lid, power, and sleep button controls (options currently in the Control Panel, as noted). This allows you to decide what happens when you close the notebook lid or hit the power button (have the device sleep, hibernate, shut down or do nothing).

For desktop PC users, there are power options, but obviously, they are slightly different theres no lid to shut in this case, and also the
hibernate option isnt present.

Microsoft is also working on the Display section of Settings, having introduced Color Management options to allow you to change your Color
Profiles (again, shifting that from the Control Panel).

Another small move was noticed by Windows Latest in the Storage Pool panel where there is a new option to Delete this Storage pool which was previously only accessible via the legacy Control Panel. Analysis: Control Panels slow slide into oblivion

All of these are relatively minor moves well, the power-related changes are more important, to be fair but its all additional momentum in terms of the Settings app finally taking over all the duties of the old Control Panel. Its just that Microsoft is being very slow in drip-feeding these kinds of changes to Windows 11 (and indeed Windows 10) users.

The problem is that the amount of options under the hood of Microsofts
desktop operating system is vast, frankly (and some of those functions are niche and rarely seen by the majority of everyday users like storage pools). So, its taking some time for Microsoft to get its house in order in terms of migrating all of this functionality to the Settings app, which was introduced with Windows 8, but took center stage in Windows 10.

Work began in earnest on dismantling the Control Panel with Windows 10 back
in 2020 , and the eventual aim is to ditch the panel from Windows 11 (or a future version of the OS, most likely) completely.

However, there are still legacy areas of the Control Panel around as weve seen, and when these old, rusty pieces of interface pop up, it can be pretty jarring. Particularly in Windows 11 where Microsoft has gone further to achieve a sleeker and more modern look with its desktop and menus. You might also like... Watch out: soon some older PCs will lose Windows 11 support Windows 11 is getting a voice-powered ability many users have been longing
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Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/windows-11-gets-new-features-for-s ettings-app-as-microsoft-continues-with-its-death-by-a-thousand-cuts-for-contr ol-panel


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