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by benmorris 2427 days ago
Windows has become a complete UI disaster. I feel like Windows 7 was the last cohesive UI. The control panel is a great example. I'm not sure how it could possibly be more of a train wreck. Settings are in seemingly random locations split between the new and old style control panels. The deeper you get into dialogs it is like stepping back in time. Printers or network adapters you end up jumping back and forth to find the correct setting.
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aliswe 2427 days ago
Well if it isn't Ben Morris ..... Thanks for your valuable blog posts on microservices etc. No way to contact you privately? I'm making a stateless .net core cms ...

To the topic, I agree fully. In swedish, it's even worse. Wanted to change some environment variables yesterday (golang path) and tried to find the "system" dialog that is opened through windows + break key that is found on non-laptop keyboards

Search for system? You get system information, system configuration, etc, but not the classic control-panel "app" called system.

Also, remote desktop (the tsclient) isn't anywhere to be found except by typing the improbable and kinda arcane translation "fjärrskrivbord"

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Nition 2427 days ago
If anyone hasn't really noticed this, a good example is try changing the mouse pointer speed (which is surely a pretty common thing to want to do!).
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markmark 2427 days ago
I'm on mac, but opened up my windows laptop to check this. I clicked the start menu, typed "mouse speed" and the first option was "Change the mouse pointer display or speed", I picked that and there I was.
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Nition 2427 days ago
The main issue is that a search for "mouse" or the like takes you to the new Settings panel for mouse instead, which has some options but not all. A small "Additional mouse options" link under a "Related settings" heading then takes you back to the old Control Panel mouse settings, where you can actually change the speed.

Your search was good, and got you straight to the old Control Panel version. But the fact that the settings are split over two not-fully-overlapping systems is a bit ridiculous, and confusing.

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