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Re:State of the Windows: What is going on with Windows 11? by dekhn on Monday January 26, 2026 @05:41PM (#46772657)
My favorite is whenever you need to do anything remotely complicated in settings. It's like travelling through layers of archeological digs. For me, it's the network settings and audio settings that are the best example.
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Re:State of the Windows: What is going on with Windows 11? by wvenable on Monday January 26, 2026 @05:58PM (#46772889)
Microsoft gets a lot of flak for their approach to updating the settings up but I think they did that exactly right. There was no way that were going to be able to re-implement every setting available in one go and have it be good. So they took the iterative approach and moved over the most important settings first and each version of Windows 10/11 more and more options are available in settings.

I find myself having to use the old control panel dialogs less and less -- but I'm also happy that they are still there.

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Re:State of the Windows: What is going on with Windows 11? by Legend2440 on Monday January 26, 2026 @06:39PM (#46773325)
Or like how there are two layers of right-click menu in windows explorer - the new simplified menu, and then 'Show more options' for the old menu just in case.
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Re:State of the Windows: What is going on with Windows 11? by conception on Monday January 26, 2026 @05:55PM (#46772846)
The services control panel just as badly designed as it was 30 years ago.
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