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Why is Microsoft ditching Control Panel?

Why is Microsoft moving Control Panel settings and planning to get rid of it entirely? (News, Issue 593, page 9) I use the current Control Panel, with the setting selected to display with ‘Small icons’ (see screenshot above right). This is all the settings in a relatively small window.

Microsoft’s new method of showing them all in the Settings app wastes space, and has time-wasting individual windows. Most of the time I can’t find what I want. Microsoft’s developers along with Mozilla’s and others seem to have forgotten what the ‘G’ in GUI actually means (Graphical User Interface). So many apps these days actually have a TUI (Textual User Interface), with no Graphics. I want my computer with a