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by odie5533 162 days ago
The partial overlap has been in this state now for years and years. I still have to access the control panel for network device control, sound control, and some of the advanced sharing settings. I thought it would be a short transition but now we just have crappy partial duplicates of settings and ui styles scattered around this half baked migration. When I open the disk volume management it's like I'm back on Windows 2000 for some reason.
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p_ing 162 days ago
Regular volume management can be done entirely within the Settings app. So can sound settings. There's probably an outlier that diskmgmt does better, I'm sure. But diskpart still exists, too. It could be that MSFT targets only the common scenarios and the fallback ends up being old utils/PowerShell at some point.

This was new in 2025, so it is still moving over.

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odie5533 162 days ago
As far as I know, to modify the audio Exclusive Mode settings and view jack information, you still need to use mmsys.cpl from the Control Panel. And I think many operations like converting MBR to GPT still require the Disk Management control panel.
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p_ing 162 days ago
You're correct, and those are likely all little-used in the grand scheme of Windows users (MBR -> GPT for certain).
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estimator7292 162 days ago
Waving it away as little-used features is not an excuse, it's the entire reason things got this way. That's why we have layers upon layers of half baked UI with "only" the controls that "everyone" needs. Because those rationalizations are wrong and this is the result.
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hulitu 162 days ago
> That's why we have layers upon layers of half baked UI with "only" the controls that "everyone" needs.

But this is the future. Layers over layers of abstraction. The main idea is to make the attacker give up.

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p_ing 162 days ago
I would expect Microsoft to relegate little used features to CLI rather than figure out how to integrate them into the UX.
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odie5533 162 days ago
Depends if they want their OS to be easy to use with wide appeal like macOS, or a CLI nightmare like Arch.
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1718627440 162 days ago
Honestly I always hope that what I try to do, is still possible with the old Control Panel, since there I at least get understandable descriptions and can actually change things instead of the marketing speech and locked down settings in that abomination called "Settings app".
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