Where is the Windows 11 control panel? Does it even have one?
Design evolution of the Windows control panel
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
I tried using bluetooth speakers with Windows. It was fucking atrocious because Windows makes zero effort to compensate for bluetooth lag. Watch a video file or a Youtube video on Android and it inserts a split second of delay into the stream so the video and audio sync up. Windows does nothing of the sort, and it feels like you're watching a dubbed foreign language film.
This does not match my experience using Airpods Pro on Windows. On the other hand it is seemingly impossible to use the microphone of these Airpods and listen to music at the same time. The quality is atrocious. Something that I assume is possible on a Mac. (Anybody knows of a solution? I read it's because of bluetooth profiles or whatever...)
No, on a Mac the headphones switch profiles with Mic as well, it's pretty obvious when they go from A2DP to HFS profile.
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#93Windows 2000 control panel was perfect. I'd take pretty much any of the interfaces over the abominiation that is windows 10 control panel. It's form over function so hard it hurts, in a place where function is all I want. I'm not on a "journey" or having an "experience" or whatever they're aiming for. I just want to change a setting, so show me ALL the settings programs, RIGHT NOW. It's laughable how much you need to…
Windows 10 control panel is just a viewer you can't even do control stuff in it. It's not even doing a good job as a viewer of what you have on your computer. I don't know what Microsoft was thinking when they were building it.
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is what happens when you have too many chefs in the same design kitchen. Microsoft really could use some product/UX zealot in the driver seat for a while. They should also work on reducing the latency of their products in general... Everything feels like laggy trash now. Someone should do a study on stress levels between windows XP and windows 11 user groups for basic daily office tasks and then throw it into th…
"Microsoft really could use some product/UX zealot in the driver seat for a while." I hate to say this, but I think it would just result yet another UX camp in the system. The weight of legacy is heavy. To clean up the UI mess, Microsoft would need to heavily deprecate supported APIs and conventions, and I don't think that's going to happen.
It would be particularly ideal if the brand of zealotry employed was “roll the look and feel of everything back to Windows 2000 but add proper scaling support”.
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#95I think the control panel is fine. You can search for all the functionality you need through the start menu search bar so I rarely have to use it directly but when I do it's perfectly usable. I also found windows 11 to be an improvement.
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#96Hey, my son and I run this site. Cool to see it here. Thanks for stopping by!
Mate, thank you! I always forget the name of the website, but regularly go down a deep rabbit hole looking at how things were, whether I remember a detail right or not, and how were the other platforms at the time. It’s a great resource, I hope you can keep it running for a very long time.
Re: Design evolution of the Windows control panel
#97Hey, my son and I run this site. Cool to see it here. Thanks for stopping by!
Mate, thank you! I always forget the name of the website, but regularly go down a deep rabbit hole looking at how things were, whether I remember a detail right or not, and how were the other platforms at the time. It’s a great resource, I hope you can keep it running for a very long time.
Thank you for the kind words! It was fun putting together. All this old tech was precious and formative for so many of us.
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#98Windows 2000 was clearly the peak in this article, and (as a whole system) it did feel like it at the time. (I do wish it had included ClearType though...)
While I agree, Id also argue virtually every posters opinion on HN about design of the Windows CP is useless. Most of us are power users and it we are not power users we are incredibly opinionated about some UX stuff.
'Normies' probably never open up the control panel/settings to change anything, ever.
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#99Hey, my son and I run this site. Cool to see it here. Thanks for stopping by!
Ho, I just thought it was some sort of random blog post then I saw your comment. Great website ! Thank you for the memories. May I suggest you to add links to archive.org downloads where the software you show is available ?
Great suggestion, thanks!
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#100Hey, my son and I run this site. Cool to see it here. Thanks for stopping by!
Thanks for the nice site/review. As a side note somehow (and as I see it) "evolution" has a positive connotation, i.e. an evolution step brings something that is seen as "better", and unfortunately, in the case of Windows Control Panel, this is very hard to state. By reading the title only I had the at first sight impression of the article being some form of MS fanboysm. Something like "How the Windows Control Panel…
That's an interesting viewpoint, thanks for this. I hadn't thought of it that way but I guess I can understand that angle. To your point, the HTML title of the page is "36 Years of Microsoft Windows Control Panels Design History" which is what shows up as the title/first line in Google searches.