Re: The problem with not owning the software

On Sat, 4 Jan 2025 11:45:38 -0500, DFS wrote:

I agree there is significant overlap/duplication/confusion between
Win10/11 Settings and Control Panel.  Either it was too much work to
migrate all the Control Panel functionality at once to Settings, or they
left Control Panel intact for a while because of the massive installed
base that expects it.

That's been a problem for as long as I've used Windows. "Where the hell
did they put it this time?"  Sometimes it's obscure. If I'm trying to find
the thumbprint of a certificate how do I do it? I think you can do it
through the Control Panel although I start mmc and load the snapin. How do
you find the timeout for DCOM? I think that's dcommgr but I can never
remember the exact name. MS isn't very consistent. It's taskmgr but is it
netmgr?

Sometimes it seems to be only a name change like 'Add Remove Programs'.
However the change means the icon winds up in a new place on the panel. A
few time the changes did add clarity. Having two odbc32 executables, one
of which actually handled 64-bit connections was brilliant. Then there's
SysWOW64 for 32-bit apps and system32 for 64-bit.

None of the functionality has changed for at least 25 years when NT 4 and
ME came together.