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Posted on 07/07/2020 6:20:13 PM PDT by dayglored
Microsoft seems to be getting a kick out seeing users struggle to find Windows 10 features these days. After moving the Fresh Start feature in the latest version, 2004, and reducing the number of days Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise, and Education users can manually delay updates, the company is now experimenting with moving key Control Panel features, including System information, to Settings, Windows Latest spotted. It’s a change that some long-time Windows users might not take to easily.
If you’re like me and have been using the Control Panel for decades, getting accustomed to this feature will be as arduous as unlearning a bad habit...
...Microsoft is trying to centralize this information, and moving forward, it seems likely that Control Panel will be killed off entirely.
This is just one of a few Windows 10 features that have been changed in the latest Windows Insider update, Windows 10 Build 20161.
“We’re continuing to work on bringing capabilities from Control Panel forward into Settings,” the company said in a blog post announcing the update...
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...and, the steps will work even when not in admin mode, but the many, many settings available may or may not work when in regular user mode.
10’s “Settings” sucks - it’s slower to load than CP, it looks like an autistic person designed the layout, and it’s missing basic functionality.
I’m slowly working on transitioning to Linux.
They’re going to make me buy a Mac when this Windows 7 machine finally croaks.
It pains me to say this, but if you're looking to move to Linux, don't do it because of loss of Control Panel. IMO the Linux control dialogs and apps (at least in Ubuntu) aren't much better than the Win10 Settings stuff, probably because they're trying to aim somewhere between Win10 and MacOS for look and feel.
I've said it a hundred times before, but again.... Give me the Windows 2000 desktop UI, with Linux underneath, and I'll be happy forever.
First thing I do with a fresh Windows machine is brain-damage the UI as far back toward Win2K as I can.
First thing I do with a fresh Linux machine is install Gnome "Flashback/Metacity" so it looks like 2012.
I’m not a Win 10 user and prolly never will be. But thank goodness for speccy. I use that rascal all the time.
Once you get used to the UI differences (takes maybe a week or two) you'll find it surprisingly effective. But you do have to twist your mind a little bit.
I switch between Win10, MacOS, and Linux continuously all day long. It can be done, even by an old (68) dog like me.
l8tr
I always thought that such meaningless,mindless changes were done by some senior VP newly-appointed who wished to prove his mettle and worth of the high salary. However such things appear to be as absurd as putting the gas pedal on the left instead of the right.
something called “Control Panel”, that’s just so 90’s.
= = =
Control Panel - - -
Just a short step removed from Master server and Slave server.
Like Master Bedroom.
Soon to be WTAZ Windows Ten Autonomous Zone
Sheesh.
Ping! Bump! Reference and bookmark!
Thanks! ;-)
Once I learned of it, during my W8 and W8.1 era, I started to use it. MS is fighting a war of attrition against its customers.
I’m thankful every day that I stuck with Windows 7. The only part that sucks is when you report a problem to someone and you tell them you are using Windows 7, they have the easy excuse of saying that Windows 7 is no longer supported and they can’t replicate the error. Doesn’t happen often, though.
I’ll gladly keep my Control Panel, thank you. And I turned off Windows Update long before it was popular.
BTTT!!!
it's not just windows ...
it's modern software in general ...
especially newer websites ...
I thought I was the only nut that did things like that. I switch between 4 different versions of Linux (RHEL, Neon, Manjaro, Raspbian) and when I must (at work) Win10. I don’t quite count Android as Linux. I’m not in the Apple camp, never have been and probably never will be. Not that I have anything particularly against it - just I don’t need it for anything so why learn (and spend $$$ on) yet another technology ecosystem.
Windows 7 was good. Windows 8 sucked the big one and still does. Can’t find half the commands I need.
Now W10. Supposed to be a better version of W8 but this sounds like it is a regressive POS.
Break up Big Tech into tiny really competitive pieces and let them make something the user really wants, not the shit that they think they want.
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