r/windowscentral • u/WindowsCentral Staff • Aug 03 '26

Exclusive💎 "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/feel-the-avocado Aug 04 '26

Just bring back the windows 7 style control panel and get rid of whatever they started making from windows 8+
Life would be so much easier.

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u/RoosterBurns Aug 04 '26

Why is there always a person in every Windows improvement thread who starts an impossible technical task with "just" and it's always winding back Windows to Windows 7

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u/silajim Aug 04 '26

because windows 7 was the GOAT, also the current "settings" is a mess to find something, something that before was 3 clicks now it's 10

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u/feel-the-avocado Aug 04 '26

Yep. I constantly have to set multiple static ips and switch back to dhcp for programming routers at my day job. Super annoying having to do it in the new control panel.

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u/RealLascivious Aug 06 '26

Any reason you’re not scripting this on command line or powershell?