With these tools, you can significantly reduce the attack surface of Windows and effectively protect it against viruses and hackers.

Simultaneously, Microsoft demonstrated immense foresight by retaining the Control Panel from older Windows versions instead of nuking it and using Settings as the sole interface.

The Control Panel is a trusty, rusty old friend for a lot of us Windows users, going all the way back to the operating system’s original release in the 1980s. But Microsoft has been trying to ...

The Control Panel has been part of Windows since 1985, making it nearly 40 years old—and even the 'new' Settings app was introduced in 2012 with Windows 8.