You can pay for third-party PC optimization software to make your computer run more smoothly, but Microsoft PC Manager does ...

Learn how to share a USB printer on Windows 11 in 2025. Step-by-step setup, network settings, PrintNightmare fixes, and ...

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 ...

Microsoft has just released the Windows 11 25H2 preview build 26220.7344 for Insiders on the Dev and Beta Channels. The main change is the public preview of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open ...

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 ...

A cross-platform port scanner written in Go, compatible with both Windows and Linux machines for the command line. It scans a variety of ports to determine if they're open or closed, and supports ...

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 ...

In a move that marks the end of an era, Microsoft has officially confirmed that the iconic Windows Control Panel is “in the process of being deprecated in favor of the Settings app.” This decision ...

As we wrote in our 2015 guide, the Control Panel allows you to add or remove software/hardware, administer user accounts, manage security settings, change how Windows looks and acts, and more. But ...