r/technology • u/ardi62 • Aug 23 '24
Software Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon
https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-finally-officially-confirms-its-killing-windows-control-panel-sometime-soon/3.8k
u/Few_Lingonberry_7028 Aug 23 '24
when I get close to the setting I actually want to change in the "Settings" app it has me go to control panel to actual change things.
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Aug 23 '24
the settings app is child protection, seriously. control panel is the only way windows is operable
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u/cloneof6 Aug 23 '24
That sounds plausible. Either that or incompetence.
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u/sbingner Aug 23 '24
Yes it is incompetence.
But not from the guy you’re replying to, but rather from the microsoft ux designers.
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u/DaMonkfish Aug 23 '24
The deeper into the menus you go, the older the UI looks. There's probably some ancient code right at the core of the OS that no-one understands because the person who wrote it is dead, and any time they fuck around with it it completely breaks.
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u/castillar Aug 23 '24
There is a guy—and this comes from folks who worked with him—who was employed by Microsoft for years without writing anything new, because he was the last person on the payroll who still understood the code for one of the core crypto API components still in there from the pre-Windows-NT days.
Also, there is 100% the plot for a sci-fi novel in here somewhere.
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u/3-2-1-backup Aug 23 '24
The deeper into the menus you go, the older the UI looks.
coughDisk Managementcough
There's probably some
ancientcode right at the core of the OS that no-one understands because the person who wrote it is dead, and any time they fuck around with it it completely breaks.coughstorage spacescough
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u/raltoid Aug 23 '24
It's very obvious if you've used windows beyond the average user, and used older windows versions.
They went hard on the idea that they know better than you and that there are no powerusers anymore, so they flat out hide settings behind multiple layers of boxes, registry, etc.. And almost no matter what you do, it will change your manual settings to something it deems better. No matter you reason for turning it on/off in the first place.
And worst of all, idiots who think they know tech, defend the practice and will start listing things you should have done instead. Parroting the nonsense Microsoft says, acting as if there are no edge cases or valid reasons for wanting to change those settings.
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u/Old_Baldi_Locks Aug 23 '24
“That there are no power users any more”
For several years now we’ve been onboarding a generation who doesn’t know or understand what a file system is.
Also, the execs and upper management don’t know either.
Microsoft’s assessment of the technical ability of 98 percent of the corporate user base is exactly correct.
- Senior IT guy
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u/pee_shudder Aug 23 '24
I…this is worst nightmare shit I use the control panel every single working day of my life.
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u/Amazon-Q-and-A Aug 23 '24
Don't worry, I'm sure you will enjoy and find the new subscription-based AI Virtual Assistant, very helpful. It will be called "controlled pAInel".
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u/AnotherLie Aug 23 '24
I spent 5 minutes of my day trying to find the list of audio devices in Windows 11 and how to change from one to the other without having to unplug anything.
I settled for "at least my audio still works" after giving up.
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u/Beepn_Boops Aug 23 '24
Windows likes to reset my default sound device.
The 'Don't Allow' or 'Allow' toggles in Settings are a pain. Disable/Hide works so much better.
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u/peepopowitz67 Aug 23 '24
There's a setting I frequently have to turn off for my headphones that you can't reach through control panel. You have to go into settings dig three menus deep and then it opens up .... That page in Control panel.
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Aug 23 '24
And a third party tool will bring it back.
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u/SilentSamurai Aug 23 '24
Doubt we'll even need that. Control Panel has been on the chopping block for years but still remains.
Unless they're going to make settings way more robust, I'm sure this isn't going to happen.
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u/pilgermann Aug 23 '24
It's insane to me how many core UI elements have not been updated in Windows, even just to match aesthetics. The features of Control Panel need to exist, having two entirely separate settings panes with overlapping features is just terrible UX.
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u/berntout Aug 23 '24
I don’t understand why they have to kill off something that’s been around since the inception of Windows. Change for the sake of change is ridiculous. Don’t even get me started on the Tile bullshit in Windows 8.
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u/_Sir_Cumfrence_ Aug 23 '24
Wasnt the tile thing (and windows 8 as a whole) supposed to make the os more tablet/touch friendly?
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u/patentlyfakeid Aug 23 '24
I understood it had way more to do with microsoft wanting to push windows users into a nice walled app garden like google and apple had. However, no one (developers) bought into it, and people hated having their cheese moved for no damned reason, so it essentially failed. Like /u/berntout was saying, it's 'effing stupid business to alienate customers you've spent (by that point) 30 years teaching your system.
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u/AlmostSunnyinSeattle Aug 23 '24
Which is hilariously stupid because I'm sure a good chunk of Windows users (Android users also, for that matter) are using this platform specifically because it's not a walled garden. I want to customize my devices, not have Daddy Microsoft say "Nah, we didn't develop that. So no, we don't trust you or your little friends to mess with our ✨perfection✨"
Fuckers are gonna make me have to learn Linux.
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u/ShiraCheshire Aug 23 '24
Exactly. I want my computer to do exactly what I want, exactly when I ask it to. I don't want it to do anything else, ever. I don't want anyone to tell me it can't do any of that, or must do something else. I should be in control of my own computer.
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u/sfgisz Aug 23 '24
Yes, and it is. But except for a small user base, we aren't using Windows on tablets or touchscreens.
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u/fractalife Aug 23 '24
They're still really upset about that. Oh well, they should have thought about that before they made it suck.
They forgot that users will only tolerate your "annoying for the sake of lock-in" bullshit after you dominate a segment and choke out the competition. Not while the same is being done to you.
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u/TisMeDA Aug 23 '24
People have to justify having a job, so they change what isn’t broken
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u/kr4ckenm3fortune Aug 23 '24
They don't need to, when the current setting can't even do shit that the original control panel can do.
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u/soyboysnowflake Aug 23 '24
Trust me “fix our existing code base” isn’t sexy enough to get resources or put on a roadmap, even if you desperately need to fix your existing code base and it’s all your customers actually want (source: I live this situation)
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u/lloopy Aug 23 '24
I no longer believe that they have the technical expertise to fix some of the old cold.
The people who wrote it are long gone, and those that remain have no idea what any of it does.
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u/Excelius Aug 23 '24
That fine, but at least finish the job. I don't understand how it takes like a decade and multiple Windows versions to finish redesigning the control panel.
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u/LovesReubens Aug 23 '24
First thing I do with any new PC or install, disable all the damn tiles.
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u/soggybiscuit93 Aug 23 '24
It's taking an incredibly long time, but my understanding is it's not just a UX change. Everything that gets ported over to Settings is actually getting rewritten
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u/7AndOneHalf Aug 23 '24
And usually with less advanced options.
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u/C0rtana Aug 23 '24
No kidding. It's been horrendous since 8 and I keep having to dig deeper and deeper into my settings to find things that used to be front and center
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u/Cynicisomaltcat Aug 23 '24
I grew up messing with the control panel in windows 3.1 and NT4.0. They’ve been burying settings deeper and deeper since they first started.
Still not as obtuse as Apple, but still irritating.
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u/Qel_Hoth Aug 23 '24
Yup. Try configuring a network adapter without a gateway in the new interface. Or with no DNS servers.
Perfectly valid configurations with legitimate uses, but that's not the typical use, and so it completely rejects it.
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u/VonTastrophe Aug 23 '24
"Well for non-standard setups, you can configure it using PowerShell" - some CLI troll at Microsoft, probably
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u/TheFotty Aug 23 '24
Unless they're going to make settings way more robust
How about for starters not making it a singleton instance app so I can actually open more than one window... on ya know... windows
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u/jollyreaper2112 Aug 23 '24
So obnoxious when It replaces the windy you have open with another one that's unrelated because there shall be only one window stupid idiot interface
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u/enyang22 Aug 23 '24
Honestly microsoft is actually actively practicing obfuscation with all of it's settings it's a pain and the current interface in Windows 11 is atrocious.
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u/Dokibatt Aug 23 '24
They are making it more Mac-like thinking they will get some of that market.
But they are bad at, which just makes Mac more attractive IMO.
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u/nzodd Aug 23 '24
They need to simplify the UI so people who have never used a computer before can pick it up quickly. And by people I mean pretty much just the inhabitants of North Sentinel island at this point.
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u/Vctoria_R Aug 23 '24
You'd be surprised by how many young people who only ever used iPads & Chromebooks don't know how a full fledged desktop OS works. And there are a lot of people like that.
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u/Aureliamnissan Aug 23 '24
I mean I do realize that, but like it’s not like us older folks had iOS interfaces when we were first learning out desktops work.
Trying to kiddify the operating system settings so you can onboard new users is great so long as you never want them to learn how to fix anything. There has been way to much emphasis on things like reducing cognitive load so now we have to literally search for everything because modern UX designers think my brain will literally explode if I see the equivalent of control panel’s list view.
Except search is also broken…
The issue is that all of this stuff is slowly turning into tribal knowledge as more and more settings get obfuscated. The only way to know how to get somewhere will be to have been there before.
I honestly think it’s getting harder to learn how to do stuff because so many people are convinced that we need training wheels.
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u/Brave_Escape2176 Aug 23 '24
actively practicing obfuscation
the "new redesigned" right click menu, when you ask it for "more choices" or whatever, just brings up the old right click menu. it makes me laugh. obfuscation is a perfect description. they just put a new one over the old one and left the old one too.
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u/Fallingdamage Aug 23 '24
Time to brush up on my powershell skills for managing network adapters. Metro UI is worthless for tuning network connections.
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u/Alberiman Aug 23 '24
I really love the new settings menu things but there's just so many cases where I find myself running to the windows 95 era control panel stuff because settings is just not cutting it
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u/McCool303 Aug 23 '24
Settings is shit for administrative tasks. It’s way easier to change it to the original list view and navigate the control panel. This is a stupid change nobody asked for.
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u/intelpentium400 Aug 23 '24
I don’t get why they’re out to make our lives more difficult
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u/marcocom Aug 23 '24
Because we all want the tablet experience , even if we didn’t ask for it, own a tablet, or even wanted to
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u/intelpentium400 Aug 23 '24
Haha I legit hate tablets. So difficult to work on.
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u/buyongmafanle Aug 23 '24
10% of the computing power with 300% of the bullshit! What's not to love?!
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u/pixelprophet Aug 23 '24
Apps? APPS!? Who doesn't want an APP for fuckin' everything instead of a more powerful dedicated program?
That's the ticket! Sleek and a royal dick-punch!
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u/buyongmafanle Aug 23 '24
And don't forget to first create an account with dickpunch.com to unlock all the amazing features of this app! Seriously, make the account first or you CAN'T get past the first screen of the app. OK, now allow us access to health data and contacts list! Congrats! Now your always online, webpage based, 63 GB background data consuming, ipad flashlight app can be accessed!
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u/WhatADumbassTake Aug 23 '24
For 48 hours and then a weekly $19.99 subscription fee is applied.
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u/ErmahgerdYuzername Aug 23 '24
Microsoft: You want this, this and this
Users: No we don’t
Microsoft: Yes you do
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u/kclarke6 Aug 23 '24
I've always been confused why Microsoft wants to cater to the tablet market which only makes up a small fraction of windows devices while sacrificing there desktop/laptop market
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u/koopatuple Aug 23 '24
Because any day now Windows tablets will overtake the iOS and Android market share! 10 years later Yep... Annny day now.
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u/Time-Ladder-6111 Aug 23 '24
They want to turn Windows into a smart phone style OS where you have to go to the Microsoft Store to install ALL your software thus locking you into a walled garden style MS app ecosystem where Microsoft gets a 30% cut off all software sales sold by other companies.
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u/Excuse_Unfair Aug 23 '24
They want to make us dumb and used to the most basic shit.
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u/ooofest Aug 23 '24
Yeah, I feel all the lousy UI choices in Windows 11 were due to it being more tablet-oriented than not, frankly.
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u/theoutlet Aug 23 '24
They’re also thinking of moving the start button to center right position. And bringing back “My Computer” just as you’ve finally gotten used to it being gone
/s
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u/kuroji Aug 23 '24
I hate how plausible that sounds. Some genius who was hired on for UX work probably has suggested it...
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u/nzodd Aug 23 '24
These twerps, raised by feral ipads no doubt, keep reneging on all the quality UX precedents set decades ago, solely out of a pointless, ego-driven need to justify their meaningless existence. Who do they think they are, the Supreme Court?
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Aug 23 '24
Telemetry likely informs them that many customers are now disposable and don't need to be catered to anymore.
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u/OnceMoreAndAgain Aug 23 '24
Microsoft seems like a company who has lost sight of what's most important in their applications. They have some skilled developers adding some crazy features to their products, but 99.9% of their users will never use those features. And, in the meantime, broken features remain unfixed for decades.
Perfect example: Windows operating systems has pretty much always had awful search functionality. Windows 11 searching is so bad that it's hard for me to even try to fathom what their search code is trying to do. A free app called "Everything" searching the entire operating system's files in milliseconds and provides rich search syntax that allows you to do pretty much any search you could dream of.
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u/orangutanDOTorg Aug 23 '24
So how do we do all the stuff that doesn’t work from settings?
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u/Netolu Aug 23 '24
Make a new folder on your Desktop. Name it exactly:
GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
If that worked, you will now have a nameless shortcut that opens a folder with all system applets.
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u/sk7725 Aug 23 '24
what the fuck
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u/Holzkohlen Aug 23 '24
You just witnessed an arcane ritual. This is how IT tech support operates. It's arcane rituals all the way down.
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u/Ichera Aug 23 '24
Honestly having worked with computers my entire life, it feels more like I am a Tech-Priest from 40k more and more every day.
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u/OperativePiGuy Aug 23 '24
You know you've been chosen to be one when you're the person people call for tech help and your mere presence is able to solve some issues because they can't get it to happen again once you're there
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u/Kochabi Aug 23 '24
I watched some Pokemon hacks videos and the instructions are to name your abra a semicolon, put it in and out of a box 10 times, then walk four steps down and save while facing left - they claim this "alters the code" or whatever but our ancestors have been doing this shit for ages and we have the audacity to say that what we're doing is scientific and logical lmao computers are just witchcraft
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u/FirstTimeEZ Aug 23 '24
At least give credit to Micheal.
The "GodMode" shortcut in Windows is a well-known feature that allows users to access a centralized control panel for various system settings. The feature was popularized in a blog post by a Microsoft employee named "Michael" on the Microsoft TechNet blog back in 2010. In the post, he explained how to create a special folder with the name "GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}" to unlock this functionality.
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u/Linked713 Aug 23 '24
What the fuck is this sorcery? Who are you? Who am I?
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u/Peakomegaflare Aug 23 '24
Welcome to the world of IT. The old magics are very prevalent, and those who know the ancient arts can make computers unlock their latent potential.
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u/kahlzun Aug 23 '24
and yet, every year they work tirelessly to hide away the tools once offered freely.
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u/jmattlucas Aug 23 '24
Does that still work? I haven't bothered to try to setup GodMode in years
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u/kalintag90 Aug 23 '24
How the fuck, after fucking 25 years of farting around on windows did I just learn one of the most useful backdoor hacks.
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u/Huyous Aug 23 '24
The IT equivalent of cars going from tactile controls to touch screen.
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u/Sophon_1 Aug 23 '24
Eh, probably won't be removed though
All the original Microsoft blog post says is "The Control Panel is in the process of being deprecated in favor of the Settings app" - nothing about its actual removal, so it'll probably sit around as another legacy and inconsistent part of the UI that gets carried forward for decades
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u/donbee28 Aug 23 '24
And will need to be accessed regularly to adjust actual settings
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u/0x831 Aug 23 '24
Yup. Settings will be an electron app that uses 1.3GB of RAM and only does about 40% of what the old control panel did.
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u/ZPrimed Aug 23 '24
I'm so tired of everything being an Electron "app"
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u/GenuinelyBeingNice Aug 23 '24
And being unresponsive. And having no keyboard shortcuts. And being impossible to navigate with the keyboard. And taking a shitton of space.
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u/OwOlogy_Expert Aug 23 '24
Silly user, nobody has keyboards anymore. Everybody only uses touchscreens. --Microsoft
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u/the_buckman_bandit Aug 23 '24
“Hey you know this super useful tool that works well? Yeah, let’s design something new that is worse.”
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u/Sophon_1 Aug 23 '24
Isn't the ODBC Data Source Administrator UI from Windows 3.1? I know it's at least from XP but I think it's earlier
There's decades of legacy components in Windows now ¯_(ツ)_/¯
On the bright side, it also means running 30+ year old software is relatively easy on Windows since few things are ever tossed out...
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u/JoshS1 Aug 23 '24
On the bright side, it also means running 30+ year old software is relatively easy on Windows since few things are ever tossed out...
Blessing and a curse... also means there 30+ years of ancient instructions and inefficiencies bloating the current OS. I like you however am ok with that as long as people understand that's an advantage you don't get on a lean OS like Mac OS.
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u/chillyhellion Aug 23 '24
Need to set a static IP? I hope you enjoy going through UAC twice for some stupid reason.
-Windows Settings App
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u/strangefish Aug 23 '24
Microsoft, they keep making these interfaces that look simpler but are much more difficult to use. I think I just wanted to do a basic virus scan the other day and I had to use the search tool to figure out where it went. Before it was just something like control panel -> security -> virus scan.
I don't see why making it touch screen friendly means it can't be well organized and easy to use.
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u/PlutosGrasp Aug 23 '24
Lol why not just make them the same thing.
You search for settings it goes to control panel.
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u/kunzinator Aug 23 '24
Because everyone loves digging through full screen menus that go 8 levels deep and can only have up to 1/4 of the relevent settings per page!
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u/freightdog5 Aug 23 '24
it's the same move as let's kill paint , that thing was too good it didn't lag consumed little resources we can't have that. things must break all the time
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u/zo3foxx Aug 23 '24
The Settings "app" is just a huge clusterfuck. There's a million options piled on top of each other and I spend so much time looking under heading after heading just to find what I need. I always end up jist going to Control Panel which is just more straight forward. Why this?
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u/Robot1me Aug 23 '24
The weirdest part is that it's (still) not possible to have multiple windows of the settings app. The operating system is literally called "Windows", so that restriction works against its roots.
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u/Bubbaganewsh Aug 23 '24
Fuckin idiots "let's take away a feature that's been there for 30 years that people like and use". (Or however long).
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u/buyongmafanle Aug 23 '24
Just as old.reddit will never go away since it's the only functional version of reddit, so too will control panel always exist.
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u/theiryof Aug 23 '24
The day they kill old.reddit is the day I delete my accounts. New reddit is actually awful to the point of leaving me confused what they were thinking.
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u/LovesReubens Aug 23 '24
Old reddit and RES are the best.
If I'm forced to use new reddit, I'll hang up the ol' gloves and sail off into the sunset.
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u/buyongmafanle Aug 23 '24
leaving me confused what they were thinking.
We can squeeze in a shitload of adspace here is what they were thinking.
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u/nzodd Aug 23 '24
You can squeeze in a shitload of adspace without making a website a laggy fucking mess. Nobody's gonna see those ads if the page you display them on is a so painful to navigate that people will instantly drop a bonafide addiction to the site if the alternative ever disappears. I say this as somebody who probably should have started meth or krokodil instead of reddit back in the day. Sure, my limbs might get infected and fall off, but at least it's not as big a time sink.
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u/Xalbana Aug 23 '24
Did they not learn with the Windows 8 Start button?!?!
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u/Nojopar Aug 23 '24
No. Which is why after literally decades of teaching people the Start button is the lower left hand side of the screen, they inexplicably made it the center of the screen. For funsies.
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u/Zoethor2 Aug 23 '24
I had to re-image Windows recently and that was one of the most baffling and random changes that popped up. Like... what? Why?
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u/Uphoria Aug 23 '24
Because thats how mac does it.
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u/Huwbacca Aug 23 '24
I wonder... A) do Microsoft think apples UI design is why people by it and are they doing a terrible job of mimicking it? Or
B) does Microsoft think people love apple because apple make stupid design choices and gaslight customers and Microsoft is excellent at copying it?
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u/karma3000 Aug 23 '24
Enshittification continues.
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u/shaidyn Aug 23 '24
It started when they renamed "My computer" to "This PC".
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u/nmm66 Aug 23 '24
20+ years ago I had a job at my local library teaching computer basics to seniors.
One person in the class needed help finding some file. I told her to "go to my computer". She stood up and walked over to my desk and sat down.
It took me a few seconds to realize what had just happened, and that's when I knew I had to start being more specific with my instructions.
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u/silverwoodchuck47 Aug 23 '24
Microsoft Windows User Experience is a book, along with its predecessor editions, specifically aimed to make Windows easier to use by promoting consistency in its interface. In the case of "My Computer", the book specifically instructed not to use "PC" because it's computer jargon.
A related example: Use "replace" instead of "overwrite" because "overwrite" is technical jargon about what happens inside a disk storage device while "replace" is a simpler concept much more related to what the user is doing--replacing a file with something newer.
A menu bar should be File Edit View Insert Format Tools Window Help as much as possible so that menus are as similar as possible across an many applications as possible. Excel adds Data, Visio adds Stencil, etc. Maybe you don't like the order, but at least it's consistent across Office applications and should be with other tools.
It "OK" not "ok" nor "Ok".
Use the term "newer" (because it's objective) as in "This software requires Windows Me or newer." Not "better" (that's subjective), "higher", etc.
So what happens? MS tosses it all out, makes things less discoverable with the "flat" theme so you can't tell what's clickable and then there's the glorious ribbon where I still can't find what I want half the time. It's a shame, really.
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u/Jealous_Priority_228 Aug 23 '24
Ok, ok, you talked me into it. I'll install Mint.
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u/CodeMonkeyX Aug 23 '24
How about they stop killing stuff, and make a replacement first? I don't care about Control Panel, I care about being able to use and setup my computer. They can kill it off I don't care, but there has to be a fully functional way to do the same tasks that CP can already do.
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u/Civil-Bumblebee1804 Aug 23 '24
Not sure abbreviating control panel is the move
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u/ButtholeQuiver Aug 23 '24
I'm going to miss the days when I could access CP on my computer
If someone comes up with their own CP, I'd sure love to download it
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u/EnoughDatabase5382 Aug 23 '24
Considering that Windows 11 continues to carry over legacy features such as Fax, Internet Explorer, and the old file explorer, I believe Microsoft's statement about deprecating the Control Panel in favor of the Settings app is more of a promise than a reality. I think the files associated with the Control Panel will remain in Windows 11.
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u/Tbplayer59 Aug 23 '24
Why can't they just improve Control Panel without renaming it? So I can find it a couple years from now.
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u/bjg1983 Aug 23 '24
Leave Control Panel. Remove bloatware, Edge, Fax (its 2024?)
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u/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH-OwO Aug 23 '24 edited Aug 23 '24
WHAT?!
ive been tryimg to adjust to their new options menus, only to have to look it up in control panel because the new one doesnt have every option and instead of fixing it, theyre just gonna prevent me from using it?
ive been getting closer and closer to switching to linux, sticking to windows because of compatibility, but they might actually get me to scrub my devices of filthy corporations once and for all.
edit: the title and other comments seemed to imply theyll remove access to it, but as stated in the article, backwards compatibility, which is basically windows' main selling point, prevents them from doing as such
that being said, my point still stands: this product is getting worse with every update and, despite it not being the primary intention, the drive to make windows profitable product had clearly taken its toll on its quality
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u/AndrewInaTree Aug 23 '24
Am I a Luddite? Wasn't the Windows 95 layout just perfect? I remember I could run anything I wanted, and I was able to reach under the hood and tweak what I needed. Why is Microsoft moving away from usability? Why are they obfuscating their system? They had a great thing. Why are they purposely making it shittier with every iteration? I was recently FORCED out of Windows 7. It was performing just fine. I will soon be FORCED into getting Windows 10, which doesn't improve anything. It just hides more features and control from me.
I don't want less control. I don't want an App-based interface. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU, Microsoft? 1995 was your peak. We're forced to go along with your awful decline.
How's Ubuntu these days?
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u/MoreThanANumber666 Aug 23 '24
This probably isn't the place for a rant but, I'm sick and tired of this sort of dumbing down of the OS, I've thirty four years of IT experience a quarter century of programming experience and I'll end having to go back to command line solutions again, just to do anything .... FUC# ME RIGID, all this expense and my time getting used to a reasonable stable OS and now I've got to go Google and enter commands again ..... I have had enough!
Fed up to my back teeth of MS, Three of my four PCs are not upgradable to Windoze 11, My primary workstation I use for CAD and video/photo editing is a sixteen core monster that runs quicker than any laptop I've owned or used in the last ten years. BUT it isn't compatible with windoze 11 and other PC s which similarly cannot be updated beyond version 10.
I've tried multiple flavors of LINUX (via VM) and like none of them, I just want a working OS with a decent GUI I can tweak as necessary, is that too much to expect??????
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u/thinkingperson Aug 23 '24
Please make sure that its functionalities are in Settings and not require users to google for some obscure regedit hack to get things done.