1. Bing web search results for "system"

2. System Information, a program that shows a report about hardware and software in your computer

3. Settings, the modern control panel app, which has a panel called System

4. The old "System" control panel

5. "Change Your System Sleep Settings", or some other randomly-chosen specific setting from inside the modern System control panel.

(if some distro could manage to provide a consistent UI ...)

It might work, it might fool me once. But you and me computer, we are working together all day! It gets old.

There's a tool called Everything that somehow does a search across all files instantaneously and I haven't touched start since then

I wonder if this is a way to boost bing usage.

Create a Folder with the Name:

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

The Windows Master Control Panel shortcut, labeled All Tasks and also called Windows God Mode by bloggers and All Tasks folder by at least one Microsoft developer, is a shortcut to access various control settings in Windows Vista and later operating systems, including Windows 10. By creating a folder with a certain name, users have access to all of the operating system's control panels from within a single folder.

The shortcut is implemented by creating a folder with the extension .{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}. GodMode was the original folder name used when the feature was publicised, but any name can be used.

I definitely realize that by writing this comment I am both identifying myself as not a gamer and reverse-dating myself. :)

It's terrible.

At least they finally put a screen brightness slider on the notification center.

P.S. Linux user

Is that something people at huge companies have to think about often?

Good money vs working on a product you believe in.

There is no way you seriously think this...

Skype is atrocious, and offensive as a product.

Let me put it this way: Since chatting with Teams, I no longer think quite as badly of Skype.

UI is old, but is the fastest.

-- State of software, 2020

Start Button > Settings Icon > Devices, which is in the top-middle, and has the subtitle "Bluetooth, printers, mouse"

But why bother? Without having any idea where it is I can still find it even faster than that.

Start Button > "bluetooth" > Enter

And with search autocomplete I only needed to get as far as "bl" before it suggests the right thing. And my desktop doesn't have wifi, but I only need to get as far as typing "wi" for the start menu to suggest the wireless settings anyway. The Control Panel always sucked, and the settings menu sucks on iOS or Android too. Typing in the start menu to search has been around since roughly Vista.

And their apps aren't great, but I haven't experienced anything like the problems you describe. They're barebones but fine.

The path is: Network & Internet -> Status -> Network&Sharing center -> <Connection name> -> Wireless properties -> Security -> show characters.

The fastest way to get to that is via a google search: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/find-your-wi-fi-...

I still don't know how you can see the password for a network without being connected to it.