About Windows 11 Control panel

 Windows Control Panel has been around for a while and it was the default app to manage settings in Windows 7 or earlier. Since the release of Windows 8, Microsoft started focusing on a modern alternative to Control Panel and it is determined to migrate legacy features to the settings app in a future release of Windows 11.

For the past few years, the company has been moving parts of the Control Panel to the modern Settings, with the transition getting slow after the release of Windows 10 May 2020 Update. Since Windows 11, however, migration seems to be happening at a rather fast pace. Microsoft’s approach with Control Panel migration is pretty straightforward. The company wants to remove Control Panel pages only when the alternative to that page is ready in the Settings app. Starting with Windows 11 version 22H2, trying to click into the “Programs & Features” page of the Control Panel will automatically redirect users to Settings.

Programs and Features page

The links to Programs & Features in Control Panel will open the Windows Settings app in Build 22523 or later. While there’s no ETA for the full demise, Control Panel is likely to remain part of the next big Windows 11 feature update and it will only lose some features.