- Microsoft passes on another part of the old configuration panel of the Windows 11 Settings Application
- This time, its keyboard options (according to certain parameters related to the mouse in the recent past)
- This is hidden in the Windows 11 test versions, so there is no guarantee that this will happen – but that seems a sufficiently likely possibility
Microsoft continues the slowdown in driving features of the Windows 11 configuration panel to the Settings application.
The control panel is an old rusty part of Windows 11 which has been replaced by the Settings application, although they are indeed the same thing – just a lot of parameters.
The control panel still drags into the office operating system because it has inherited options that remain important (even if a large part of this feature is quite niche at this stage). However, Microsoft slowly migrates all these features towards parameters (where everything should be, ideally), and TechSpot noticed the most recent movement on this forehead.
In this case, these are some keyboard options, as indicated by this regular leak of all Windows things on X, Phantomoforesh.
Welcome to another episode of control panel options going to parameters. Hidden (not available by default) in the latest Dev and Beta CUS: the characteristic of the Migrant Repeating keyboard and repetition rate options in settings> Accessibility> Keyboard. pic.twitter.com/xgfi1xoxkfApril 25, 2025
These are accessibility parameters for the keyboard, in particular the repetition options for repetition of the characteristics of the keyboard and repetition.
I should clearly say that this has not yet happened; As the leak points out, this work is hidden in the background of the latest versions of Windows 11 overviews in the Dev and Beta channels.
Analysis: peripheral consideration
As this has not yet been implemented, we must be aware that all the changes that are not put in place in the background of Windows 11’s previews as it ends by being activated. So, nothing can come, but since Microsoft is slowly focused on the functionality of the old configuration panel to the Settings application, it seems likely that this will be the next step.
Especially since we recently saw indices that Microsoft also moves mouse options from the configuration panel, so that the keyboard parameters would adapt to this. It is logical to migrate the full range of mouse and keyboard parameters, because these are capacities than more people performing Windows 11 are more likely to use (compared to some of the dark things that are launching into the corners of the control panel).
Naturally, all this is (or should do) part of a wider reader to possibly completely remove the configuration panel, passing all its features to the application of modern appearance parameters.
Windows 11 will be a better place when it happens, simply because when you come across a less commonly used parameter that still languishes in the control panel, it seems very shocking when this old interface appears in the middle of the rationalized and modern office of Windows 11.
As for the duration of this complete migration process, well, it is the assumption of anyone. However, given how Microsoft has followed this project so far – let’s just say that it does not seem to be a kind of priority – it is likely that this is the next version of Windows (no matter what could be called – Copilot Windows, perhaps) that this work is finished.
