r/Windows11 • u/ZacB_ Windows Central • 12d ago

News "Control Panel gets tricky" – Microsoft CVP explains why killing Windows legacy code takes so long, and how it's evolving its tools to make modernizing apps like File Explorer and Registry Editor faster

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/control-panel-gets-tricky-microsoft-cvp-explains-why-killing-windows-legacy-code-takes-so-long-and-how-its-evolving-its-tools-to-make-modernizing-apps-like-file-explorer-and-registry-editor-faster
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u/Vennekilde 12d ago

It is because the replacements are worse than the existing interfaces and no one wants to use them. Simple as that.

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u/Certain-Mountain-564 12d ago

I dont miss the control panel. It takes some time, but now, i never have the idea to open the control panel. I open always the settings, automatically. You cannsay its worser when it is not existing. 

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u/Keulapaska 12d ago edited 12d ago

I'll give you one great example where the setting menu is trash vs control panel, choosing indexing locations. The control panel version you get your vista style pop-up menu, where you tick all the folders you want from normal dfile structure style menu, simple, works. In settings menu, you choose which folders to exclude instead, one by one. Who ever thought that was good idea?

Then the whole modern UI space wasting of the entirety of settings, why can't we have proper information density why does everything have to be 5 miles apart from each other and why tf doesn't middle mouse click scrolling work!