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 get rid of it for almost a decade, replacing its functions with the friendlier Settings app. According to a new Microsoft support page that covers several different aspects of PC management in both Windows 10 and 11, Control Panel’s end is nigh. We still don’t know an exact date, though: “The Control Panel is in the process of being deprecated in favor of the Settings app, which offers a more modern and s…