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Microsoft formally deprecates the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel(arstechnica.com)

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dan1101@lemm.ee
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They need to finish Settings before doing that. Control Panel is almost always the easier way to accomplish things and still the only way to accomplish some IIRC.

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sverit@lemmy.ml
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This. Settings does not have full audio devices information and settings.

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esc27@lemmy.world
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Settings in Windows 11 is close. I rarely find myself going to control panel when it was about 50/50 in Windows 10. Still more clicks than I would like but workable.

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rtxn@lemmy.world
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I had to do a lot of configuration work on Win10 computers lately. The MMC, Powershell, even Regedit are faster and more intuitive than Settings. It’s fucking ridiculous.

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shotgun_crab@lemmy.world
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And it doesn’t take years to load, specially on older PCs

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catloaf@lemm.ee
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And you can have more than one instance open at a time, instead of having the sound page open and when you try to bring up bluetooth next to it it changes the first one instead.

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youngalfred@lemm.ee
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This is so frustrating when trouble shooting - trying to re-find where that one settings page was because you opened another.
It’s not a phone - it’s a windowing desktop environment. Allow multiple instances!

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