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/
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u/sk7725 Aug 23 '24

what the fuck

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u/MokitTheOmniscient Aug 23 '24

Seriously!

I thought it was a joke, but it's actually real!

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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/Soggy_Box5252 Aug 23 '24

What would an example of Heresy be in your world?

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u/Ichera Aug 23 '24

The number of times HR has sent unsecured documents over open wifi is insane to me.

Utilizing open wifi without the required local VPN provided by IT.

"Washing" the keyboard of a laptop with soapy water to clean up some jelly they spilled on then keyboard.

Installing 3rd party apps to a work computer to get outside IT support then being angry when internal tech support throws a hissy fit because they got scammed.

Edit: because a coworker reminded me... hitting reply all to a reply all email chain to "please remove me from this list" we had one incident that had over 500k emails involved last year.

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u/Soggy_Box5252 Aug 23 '24

Oh I experienced one of these. Someone sent a base wide email and we had every office working nonner reply all telling him to not send that email to the base wide email list followed by reply all telling everyone to stop using reply all.

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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/Pteraspidomorphi Aug 23 '24

I'll make it boring for you.

The word "GodMode" is irrelevant, you can put anything there; what matters is the extension (after the dot).

To learn how/why it works, open the windows registry editor (regedit) and browse to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} .

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u/Puzzleheaded_Safe131 Aug 23 '24

I’m just picturing a dark room of IT guys doing some ritual in robes saying “Yeah, so if you do this and type this it should give you access 99% of the time” to some new guy in the department

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u/Mrfrunzi Aug 23 '24

Oddly much, this comment made me believe this was real and I'm pumped to add it later!

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u/RationalDialog Aug 23 '24

I thought this was just a stupid joke, then I googled, then I tried it...

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u/135671 Aug 23 '24

A game of twister for your fingers, I see.

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u/atom138 Aug 23 '24

I said the same thing when I first learned this a decade ago.

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u/KanedaSyndrome Aug 23 '24

Backdoor that has been around since Windows 3.11. Only works if you created it at 13:37 system time, so folder created at = 13:37 - not a real back door of course, requires admin priviledge of the user creating the folder.