


It’s far cleaner, simpler, and better organized, and it’s designed to accommodate either a mouse or your finger on a touchscreen. You can still read about it later in this chapter.īut in Windows 10, Microsoft has extracted a few hundred of the Control Panel’s most useful options and packaged them up into a new app called Settings. It’s still there, like an old typewriter you can’t bear to throw away. And then there’s the granddaddy of them all: the Control Panel in Windows.Īctually, in Windows 10, the Control Panel isn’t very important anymore.

There’s the dashboard of a car, the knobs on a stove, the cockpit of an airplane. Every complex machine has a control panel.
