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The Classic Control Panel In Windows May Be Gone

Posted by timothy on from the good-riddance-or-sorely-missed dept.

jones_supa writes In Windows 8, there was an arrangement of two settings applications: the Control Panel for the desktop and the PC Settings app in the Modern UI side. With Windows 10, having the two different applications has started to look even more awkward, which has been voiced loud and clear in the feedback too. Thus, the work at Microsoft to unify the settings programs has begun. The traditional Control Panel is being transformed to something temporarily called "zPC Settings" (sic), which is a Modern UI app that melts together the current two settings applications.

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  1. Re: Who cares by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Mod parent -1 moms basement

  2. Re:Please Microsoft... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't fret. This shouldn't affect your daily routine of telling people to restart their computers.

  3. So ... by PPH · · Score: 1, Funny

    ... no CLI then?

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  4. Re:Please Microsoft... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 2, Funny

    We have a script that automatically boots off all the users on the weekend. That fixes half the problems. The other half of the problem is all the systems that didn't come back up from the reboot.

  5. Re:Please Microsoft... by PRMan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Even worse. I RDP'ed into a Server the other day and nobody, even those running Windows 8 on their laptops could figure out how to do a "log out" on the server.

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  6. Re:Please Microsoft... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    We have a script that automatically boots off all the users on the weekend. That fixes half the problems.

    Really? That is your solution to problems? You realize he was joking, that telling users to "restart their computers" is the response of the IT nitwit who can't figure out what the actual problem is?

    The other half of the problem is all the systems that didn't come back up from the reboot.

    What sort of IT tech has a bunch of systems so poorly administered that they don't reboot properly? Windows might not be a shining beacon of stability but you can't just be a completely incompetent admin and blame Microsoft for it.

    That situation isn't even commonplace for people who don't have somebody to administer their system for them, sounds to me like you're causing more problems than you're solving.

  7. Screw this. I'm sticking with Windows 9. by mmell · · Score: 3, Funny

    (N/T)

  8. Re:Monochrome, Yes by ArcadeMan · · Score: 3, Funny

    And yellow can be replaced by blinking. Hell, the speed of blinking could even be a better indicator of how much time is left before it turns "red". Epileptic people would love it.

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  9. Re: Please Microsoft... by jd2112 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Try fixing them in the veterinary sense...

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