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Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon (www.neowin.net)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 119 points 2 months ago (21 children)

I have friends who work in IT and would probably slam their head against the wall if they had to deal with Control Panel being removed.

Are Microsoft deliberately trying to make the fabled Year of the Linux Desktop finally become a reality? Because I feel like we're two or three more dumbfuck business moves away from this...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Can confirm, want to change your domain or computer name? Windows 7/10: control panel , system , computer name tab. Windows 10 /11: control panel, system, windows settings, advanced system settings, old system control panel, computer name tab.

Why add a middle man??

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

That many steps? WindowsKey+Break > Change computer name.

If you're okay with three steps, on Windows 10 and newer, you can right click the start menu and generally open system. Just about any version supports right clicking "My Computer" or "This PC" and selecting properties, as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

win+X, then the letter for system. probably s or y but not sure. i use win+x, a all the time for an admin ps window

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I use powershell for this. I was just stating the click through steps.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But that would require effort to learn to do something different. And a lot of users are firmly against that notion.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just like the new shitty right click menu. There is no reason to reinvent the wheel just because.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And there is no reason not to either. You would still be looking at the cli in Unix with that attitude.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I don't know about that one, It would be really hard to teleconference though the terminal.

Especially considering we still have (more or less) the same CLI for decades at this point.

Bourne was from 1977-1979, bash which was heavily inspired/designed to replace was from 1989. It is still the default shell in ubuntu.

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