- Microsoft is carrying another part of the control panel prior to the Windows 11 configuration application
- This time, they are your keyboard options (after some configurations related to the mouse in the recent past)
- This is hidden in Windows 11 test compilations, so there is no guarantee that it happens, but it seems sufficient possibility
Microsoft continues with the slow drip feeding of the features that move from the Windows 11 control panel to the configuration application.
The control panel is an ancient oxidized part of Windows 11 that has been replaced by the configuration application, although they are actually the same, only a lot of configurations.
The control panel is still circling in the desktop operating system because it has some inherited options that remain important (even if much of this functionality is quite a niche right now). However, Microsoft is slowly migrating all these characteristics to the configuration (where everything should be, ideally), and Techspot noticed the most recent movement on this front.
In this case, they are some keyboard options that are carried, as marked by that regular filtration of all Windows things in X, Phantomofearth.
Welcome to another episode of control panel options that move to the configuration. Hidden (not available by default) in the last development and beta cus: Repeat delay options of the migrated keyboard and repetition rate options in configuration> Accessibility> Keyboard. pic.twitter.com/xgfi1xoxkfApril 25, 2025
These are keyboard accessibility configurations, specifically the character delay options of the character and repetition of the repetition rate.
It should make it clear that this has not yet happened; As the filter points out, this work is hidden at the bottom of the last versions of Windows 11 Preview Builds in the Dev and Beta channels.
Analysis: Peripheral consideration
As this has not yet been implemented, we must be aware that not all the changes that are implemented at the bottom of the previous Windows 11 compilations, as this ends up. Therefore, nothing can arise, but since Microsoft is slowly behaving on the characteristics from the old control panel to the configuration application, it seems likely to be the next step.
Especially since we recently saw clues that Microsoft is also moving options from the control panel, so the configuration related to the keyboard would adapt to that. It also makes sense to migrate the full range of mouse and keyboard configurations, since those are capabilities that are more likely to use a greater number of people who execute Windows 11 (compared to some of the dark things that patan in the corners of the control panel).
Naturally, all this is (or should be) a part of a broader impulse to eventually eliminate the control panel completely, changing all its functionality to the application of modern aspect configuration.
Windows 11 will be a better place when this happens, simply because when you run into a less used configuration that still languishes in the control panel, it feels very discordant when that old interface appears in the middle of the modern and modern desktop of Windows 11.
As for how long this complete migration process will take, well, that is an assumption of anyone. However, given how slow Microsoft has been going with this project so far, let’s say it does not seem to be any priority, it is likely to be the next version of Windows (whatever it is called: Windows Copilot, perhaps) in which this work is finished.
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