Microsoft removes Sync Your Settings from Windows 10

Microsoft has announced which features the company will remove from Windows 10 with the release of the Fall Creators Update and later updates. Old code from Outlook Express, Sync Your Settings and EMET, among others, have to be removed, while Paint is no longer maintained.

With every major update to Windows 10, Microsoft cleans up parts of the OS, and the company has now published the list of features to disappear when the Fall Creators Update arrives. Microsoft distinguishes between actually removed and deprecated, to indicate that those parts are no longer maintained and may disappear in later releases.

Among the items to disappear are leftover pieces of code from Outlook Express, the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit, which has been known since late last year, the Reader app, Reading List, Syskey.exe and the TCP Offload Engine. As for Syskey, Microsoft recommends using Bitlocker and the TCP Offload Engine has been replaced by the Stack TCP Engine.

The deprecated list includes Microsoft Paint, Sync Your Settings, Windows PowerShell 2.0, and some trusted platform module features. Sync Your Settings will receive a replacement in a future update, Microsoft promises. Paint has received a successor in the form of Paint 3D.

The Fall Creators Update will bring, among other things, a new visual representation to the operating system at the end of this year that Microsoft calls Fluent Design System. In addition, the Timeline and OneDrive Files On-Demand features are coming to the OS.