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Re:Final thoughts on Windows 8: A design disaster by simonsarris on Sunday June 17, 2012 @10:18PM (#4124596)
> but I never remember the names of rarely used apps: should I be typing "Monitor settings" or "Display" or "Desktop" or whatever, if I need to change the background or a screen resolution?

Windows Vista and up automatically help you with this. Even typing things like "DPI" or "wheel" into control panel come up with a list of all possible relevant actions that could be taken, as opposed to just different panel screens. Here are a few examples of that in action:

http://i.imgur.com/c9uN1.png

http://i.imgur.com/hZStY.png

http://i.imgur.com/dQR9U.png

> why are they all trying to re-invent how we're launching applications?

My comment said why! It's not a re-invention, just a unification of the look and feel with the rest of Microsoft's ecosystem (xbox, phones, tablets, PCs will all have the same "start" screens).

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Re:Final thoughts on Windows 8: A design disaster by sesqu on Monday June 18, 2012 @02:07AM (#4125215)
I hate the wizardly control panel, incidentally. Just the other day, I was trying to remove a device. After maybe five minutes I decided it's not possible, until some time later accidentally finding the right button to press. It's very much not clear to me anymore what I can do, or how.
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Re:Final thoughts on Windows 8: A design disaster by seabee on Monday June 18, 2012 @04:04AM (#4125498)
Not sure whether you're removing drivers or ejecting hardware, but Device Manager is still in the control panel and Eject Hardware is where it always was. I wasn't aware of any other way you could do it, past or present.
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