Windows 10: Microsoft to replace Control Panel with Windows 10 Settings app

Of course it's touch orientated. If mobile devices could use the desktop UI nothing would have changed.

 

This is the standard anti-touch hyperbole. "Touch friendly" is not "touch oriented" or a "touch os" or "touch ui". It's a UI that works for both touch and keyboard/mouse. Please stop perpetuating this myth of being only useful for touch.

 

My main issue too, emphasis on the word exactly. I hope options are not put aside for the sake of the more simplistic interface of the Settings app.

 

Shawn produced a very comprehensive tutorial on this, here:


https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/4...dows-10-a.html

 

It's "God Mode". To supplement Shawn's tutorial, here's a simple way to get it right on the Desktop right-click context menu. Unzip, edit with notepad to change the entry name to whatever you like. Choose to add it to the top, middle, or bottom of context menu by merging (open with Explorer) the appropriate .reg file.
The Uninstall .reg simply undoes the entry. A convenient extra to using "God Mode" is the ability to right-click any entry and create a shortcut on the Desktop. Very handy!

 

The problem could be that those items may not be available in the finished product?
But that is an outside chance, as they appear to be so far behind that there are still Windows 7 and 8 functions and shortcuts lingering in the Windows 10
I say again - "So far"

 

Absolutely. Also, most of the instructions I run across any more say: Click/tap this or that button . . .

I get along quite well with my mouse and keyboard; in fact, my RCA 11.6" Android tablet now owns its own keyboard and mouse because I hate having to touch the screen. My cell phone has a stylus and I may even see if I can stick it on the RCA's keyboard, which has room for three Bluetooth devices. Of course, this would be just to see if it can be done. *Smile

 

I guess I am going in the same direction. I have a beautiful touchscreen, but still find it more convenient to click and point with the mouse, held permanently in my hand. Old habits perhaps.

 

All this moving stuff around in the OS is normal Microsoft fare in the latest version. Everyone moaned about Vista and Seven and 8 in the same way. I fear a large number of 7 users will be disappointed when they are upgraded en mass to Ten. 8 users not so much. Since Microsoft are insisting on a touch interface I am insisting on a mouse keyboard interface and don't care if it is free. I have made up my mind I'll be staying on 7 except for one or two 10 installs so I know whatsup...7 is free for me too since I already have it installed.

 

To each his own, Indiana, but for me, the mouse works just as well in Windows 10 as it did in Windows 7 or 8.1. As to the keyboard, there's no comparison between the on-screen and physical keyboard. *Smile

I liked Vista from the outset and Windows 7 was a total improvement over Vista. I tested both from the Alpha stage and both were completely usable. The only problem with Vista was that Marketing wouldn't allow the devs to work out the final bugs; thus, it got a bad rep. Service Pack 1 wasn't quick enough to control the damage done by the media. To a lesser extent, Windows 7 was released a bit early; however, the media didn't pan it as badly. The rest is history, as they say.

Just as I adapted to Windows 8/8.1, so I will adapt to Windows 10. Would I have adapted as readily if I hadn't first worked with Windows 8/8.1? Who knows, but I like Windows 10 much better than Windows 7 or 8.1. It's faster and easier to understand, even with Control Panel vs Settings. *Smile

Give Windows 10 half a chance, and when the time comes, I'd bet ya a nickel that you'll upgrade.

 

I am particularly miffed over media center being killed off as I use 3 machines with it so they have to stay on 7 and frankly most of the rest of my machines will too. I will probably dual boot on my 2 main machines and blow away the 8.1 installs........Or not. Microsoft may redeem themselves yet with a classic Windows 2000 type theme and a Full Windows 7 theme. I doubt it. I feel we have a collection of touch based fan boys who adore the stupid simplistic look. Here we are in 2015 and I can have 2 color icons on my desktop........nice.....my circa 1997 Windows 95 PII 128mb ram 4 meg ATI video card did better than that with animated icons from the Plus Pack.

 

Agreed - when I said 'Desktop" I meant to include the traditional laptops too. And I wonder how many laptops with touch are really used with touch. We have one laptop with a touch screen but I think that was never touched. We (my wife and I) do everything with the pad or a BT mouse.

 

Thanks Dave,

I figured Brink figured this one out - I'm only a few months behind and often too lazy to look before posting *Wink

How to Create a Control Panel All Tasks Shortcut in Windows 10
Published by Brink
06 Feb 2015Once in a while I post something before Brink write the tut, but not often ... there was one tip where we posted 11 minutes apart - he still beat me *Sad

As far as things going away in the final release (your post# 34), organizations have too much invested in the way they run Windows for MS to just remove a function or feature. They might change the UI but the mechanics are still under the hood.

If they modify a DLL or change the registry keys, there's usually a way to re-instate the previous operation. That is the real beauty of Windows and part of the curse. MS has been hog tied for years having to support previous versions and legacy code.

Anyway ... thanks for pointing to the tutorial. I just implemented it. Now I have some 'extra' time to learn about other things. *Dinesh

I can't +rep you here in the news thread - will have to wait until I come across another one of your posts that deserve tilting the scales.

Bill
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Yes we are in 2015 and everything is getting a clean modern look, even the Internet, Android, OSX and Android. Even architecture and automobiles.
Anyway we're supposedly running computers not entering a competition to see who's got the glitziest screen, if you want that get third party add ons, I'd rather have a clean interface with as few distractions as possible.
As far as touch based fanboys go who enjoy the stupid simplistic look, count me as one of them. If I want glitz and glamour I can always go back to Vista.
I bought 3 WMC for Windows 8 but I rarely use them anymore, I use Kyodi and streaming services, the world seems to be moving on and I'm glad to be moving with the times, the past holds very little interest for me except for the memories.

 

*Ditto*Ditto*Ditto