Microsoft is beginning to replace Control Panel with Windows 10's Settings app

[HyperPete]

All Microsoft does is move **** around so you can't find it and makes it more difficult to do the same tasks

Yeah, same thing with cars. They NEVER should have moved the high-beam switch off the floorboard, or the windshield-wiper control off the dashboard.
Also, I OBJECT to automatic transmissions! Give me back 3 on the tree!!! NO MORE CHANGES!

 

[TheBigT42]

Yeah, same thing with cars. They NEVER should have moved the high-beam switch off the floorboard, or the windshield-wiper control off the dashboard.
Also, I OBJECT to automatic transmissions! Give me back 3 on the tree!!! NO MORE CHANGES!

I am with you all the way up to 3 on the tree!!!
4 on the floor was a lot better!
It is next to impossible speed shift on the column.

 

[HyperPete]

I am with you all the way up to 3 on the tree!!!
4 on the floor was a lot better!
It is next to impossible speed shift on the column.

OK, I have to agree with you on that!

 

[Avro Arrow]

I can understand if Microsoft wants to add something to make changing the configuration easier, but why take away and/or block the original Control Panel? Seems like a bit of a dink move if you ask me. It's funny how MS didn't start pulling this $hit before W10 because widely adopted.

Microsoft should be aware that things like this might push a lot of people to go back to W7 and that there are A LOT of cracked versions of W7 Ultimate x64 out there that work just fine.

 

[Ben Myers]

Can anyone confirm, creating a new shortcut, with this as the contents,
will still bring up the old control panel?

C:\Windows\explorer.exe shell:::{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}

Works with 2010 Pro, too.

 

[Ben Myers]

Apple pretty much popularized the "gear" as the settings shortcut icon and pretty much everyone rolls right along with it.

I kinda prefferred Control Panel's legacy icon, but the gear works too.

The gear icon is fine. The disorganized mess of the new Settings isn't.

And, yes, after a few years of Windows 10, I can find my way around the new Settings. That's not the issue. It's the organization of all the information that is wanting.

 

[HyperPete]

I can understand if Microsoft wants to add something to make changing the configuration easier, but why take away and/or block the original Control Panel? Seems like a bit of a dink move if you ask me. It's funny how MS didn't start pulling this $hit before W10 because widely adopted.

Microsoft should be aware that things like this might push a lot of people to go back to W7 and that there are A LOT of cracked versions of W7 Ultimate x64 out there that work just fine.

Ever hear of code bloat? The cleaner the code, the faster the software. That isn't to say that Windows 10 isn't already a bloated pig, but why keep multiple ways to do the same thing? Since I am not a developer, I do not know how much extra code is required by the old control panel. For all I know, it is dependent upon a huge block of old code that serves little other use.

As far as using cracked versions of Windows, there are thieves everywhere. If your morals are such that you will not even pay for the software you use, then that is a very poor reflection of you. Personally, I would not go around bragging that you can get cracked versions of software. You never know who might be listening.