Microsoft Windows has had Control Panel capability for almost 4 decades. The first edition debuted with Windows 1. 0 in 1985 as a tool for viewing and converting formula configurations, and it remained the number one way to fulfill those responsibilities for several decades.
But Microsoft has been slowly looking to kill it for years. When Windows 8 debuted in 2012, it included a Settings app with a more modern design, but it lacked some features available in the Control Panel. Since then, Microsoft has brought more and more features from the Control Panel to its Settings app. And now, a note on a Windows page states that “The Control Panel is becoming obsolete in favor of the Settings app, which provides a more modern and streamlined experience. “
Microsoft notes that “the Control Panel still exists for compatibility reasons and to provide access to some settings that have not yet been migrated,” but that “users are encouraged to use the Settings app, whenever possible. “
This is attractive for several reasons. First of all, it’s an acknowledgment that after all those years, there are still some things you can do in Control Panel that you can’t do in the Settings app. But it also implies that this may not be the case forever: the reference to “some configurations that have not yet been migrated” turns out to recommend that it is only a matter of time before they are migrated.
How long? Who knows. The last time I wrote about the impending death of the Control Panel was over 4 years ago.
via Neowin
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Something is wrong with Microsoft when, after 12 years, they still haven’t migrated everything to Settings.
The settings are more tedious than the crappy panel, I hate them a lot, it has a separate stupid slow screen for each stupid > > > > I hate it a lot
The panel works fine. Its disorders are caused by user error.
WindowsRG will be good. We promise.
—TeH MicroSoft
I’ve already deleted my Windows installation and gone back to Linux when they first talked about replacing the keyboard button and the Show Desktop button on the taskbar. I still don’t regret it.
I use Control Panel because I need my Windows to be in British English and my keyboard and region to be in Spanish, but I also need my currency to be in € and the numbers in Spanish format, all without installing the UK keyboard. and it is not imaginable through bad configuration. :(.
It’s conceivable that in the W11 settings, you have a shortcut that opens the old region editor conversation and some other in the input settings to open the keyboard language replacement settings. More clicks than the old dashboard, but search works.
I don’t forget if the touchscreen controls migrated again, used to fix the scenario where touch input on one monitor controls another monitor (incorrect mapping). I hope they don’t do it before cutting the control panel.
Will disk control be in settings?
Hi Boxy,
Disk control is deprecated and will be removed in future releases. All data will be stored on OneDrive and not on local hard drives.
Disk Manager is a separate utility, it seems like in the settings search, but it’s not sure if you can access it with just the mouse.
By “more modern” they mean “more ChromeOS-like so kids don’t freak out at the slightest bit of ignorance” (they’ll freak out anyway) and by “more streamlined” they mean precisely so streamlined because you’re researching. A lot of nonsense, only now everyone is looking for effects on how to do anything since (what turns out) the dawn of time doesn’t work. Do you know what a retrofit might REALLY need?Microsoft Admin Console. How many times have I wished I could press Ctrl f anything there?
1000% agree, although I mostly use Linux on my home PCs, I am forced to work on a Windows PC and I surely hate all the fragmentation of configurations. It takes too long to figure out where to locate a setup.
One of the things I liked about Windows is that there are several tactics to get things done. This makes it less difficult to find a way to do what you need to do. In fact, more intuitive.
MSFT embraces the duplication of Control Panel and Settings, ultimately placing everything in Settings in Control Panel.
More disorderly and redundant is not greater. Just like the inflated length of Windows isn’t longer (the average installation length is 27GB, it’s crazy)
To be fair, maximum Windows installations are drivers and older versions of some DLLs needed to run older programs (Linux tends to solve the same challenge with “containerization,” which can take up a lot more space, some 2MB utilities in an instant). take like 100 MB or even more). On devices with small disks, they keep it compressed. The S mode used to be very compact, but it turns out that’s no longer the case with the W11. I’m curious how the most recent versions of Android reached a size of 17 to 19 GB. I understand that they should also keep everything from the previous versions, but those numbers are crazy for mobile operating systems.
I installed Arch on a PC the other day. Installed length of four GB.
Windows takes up 8 times more space. So that? They don’t want to come with every single driving force ever created. Have a reservoir of driving force and call it someday.
Yes, to explain why this is the only position where MS continues to keep the PC case offline. This makes some sense, because in the past problems with third-party drivers were the main headache. Again, the W10 in S mode had 5GB. I think it doesn’t matter now, given the garage prices, 10GB is essentially nothing compared to an average game. UNDER
Also, no, you don’t want Snap or containerization to use old material. For example, I have Python 3. 1x installed, but Python 2. 7 is also installed and I know which one to use.
I know you don’t want it, yes. But some packages, such as cryptography or media processing libraries, require other versions of other packages and you want to manipulate replacement paths for a fast environment, etc. The CUDA facilities were a real PitA for me. Linux has pretty much the same DLL challenge with less compatible packages and applications, but I have to say that they fix it very well 99% of the time.
However, Linux has many other strategies for doing everything, and enthusiasts are arguing about which one to use. I’ll stick with Windows Superior because I’m not deficient or retarded.
There are two methods, GUI or CLI, in which the backend plays the same role. . .
Wow, it turns out I know more about Linux than its fans. Imagine that. You’re just a fool.
Um, you know more about Linux. Yes, that’s true. I’ve probably just been at this longer than you’ve been alive and I make a living expanding software. I expanded the radio software in my non-public time.
Hint: installing Pulse vs Pipewire vs Just Alsa is not “a multitude of other ways” because you determine which one you need and configure it. . . then there is ONE way on your computer.
Please, more, how do you know better.
This trolling guy aside, there’s a snippet of the concept that “if everyone just edited on a single distro, a single DE system, a single init system, and a single composter, the ecosystem would be more advanced, have more features , fewer errors. ” Of course, there are smart reasons to give users choices, and this kind of simple, centralized progression would, especially now, leave general Linux software much more vulnerable than it has been. now to the internal fights between developers and managers, and the preference for advertising revenue. Array Then we would finish with ChromeOS.
Creating a fictitious resume that is rarely very impressive does not serve your argument at all, especially when you invalidate it yourself in the same post by admitting that you have to choose from a jungle of other packages to complete a given task. In some ways, it is “different” from choosing between other strategies of doing things in Windows.
Linux idiots want to live.
Disagree. Having two tactics to do anything is rarely very difficult, unless you open either strategy at the same time. Although as they put more things in the configuration it will get more messy. The buildup of “inflation” deserves to be minimal to the point of being minimal given the length of current garage devices.
Like I said, it’s much more intuitive to have tactics to get things done. Word isn’t intuitive because it’s not designed the same way.
UHH, if you had 3 in your bathroom, would that be okay? No, so why have 3 other configuration slots?
Is 27GB “minimum”? MDR. A whole Linux operating formula that adds browser/word/etc. four GB. Si I only have CLI, it’s less than 1GB.
Windows is not intuitive at all. But what do I know, I just make a living by extending the software.
Good old Kary hits him back mdr. What’s next?A review of how McDonalds is pretty good?
If you think Windows is smart enough, it’s because you haven’t used it in a while. Are there many misinformed prejudices?
I am right now, a bloated garbage can. But I guess McDonalds is pretty smart if you’re used to eating cookies.
Yes. Absolutely. I bet Kary has used Linux.
My parents over 80 years old use Linux and have no problems with the GUI repository for installations and navigation settings in Gnome DE. They ask me for options (for example, what is the Linux option for MS Office: what is LibreOffice), but it is expected. .
They also like the fact that there are no Office software subscriptions, no ads, no Candy Crush, Cortana, telemetry pre-installed, and no arbitrary hardware restrictions (TPM 2. 0, anyone???), the ability to know when updates are made, loosens. From the lack of bloat to the increased coverage against malware and bad actors. . . I can go ahead and keep going.
I easily support, although I only have 1 Windows PC (out of ~20) for CAD (I still need to check plasticity on Linux) and some games with anti-cheat.
yes, it’s so serious
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