The latest Windows 10 update seems to be chasing one of its oldest problems: menu redundancy. And while I’m in favor, this kind of change is already pissing some off in the Windows world.
Windows Latest reports that the System section of the Control Panel will be removed in the Windows 10 Build 20161 developer, which has introduced the redesigned Start menu. When you try to open this screen, you will be taken to the About System page in the Settings app.
However, the annoying part is that the Settings app is not yet complete, and it may still end up sending you back to the Control Panel, as the latter has features that the former has not yet inherited (although it was introduced again in Windows 8) . For example, those links in the side menus of the Settings app, such as Additional Power Settings, will have users running between the two apps.
Twitter user @webinbristol is already upset by the change and giving his opinion on how Windows 10 is a “unpolished mess.”
When will you realize that not everyone will be ‘cloud based’ because it is not appropriate in your situation? Getting rid of the control panel and forcing features like this to people won’t work, it just annoys them more with the unpolished mess that is Windows 10. July 6, 2020
However, Tweeter @ItsMoirrey doesn’t like the Settings app because they think he’s burying the features he needs.
The simplified user interface in the Windows 10 setup menus bothers me more than it helps. I often have to dig deeper to find settings that seem to be much more hidden than they ever needed to be, so I’ll never stop using Control Panel in Windows. July 5, 2020
It feels a lot like building public transportation, where train passengers are diverted via different escalators. This is all (apparently) part of Microsoft’s plan to “bring Settings closer to the Control Panel,” as Brandon LeBlanc, Senior Program Manager for Windows Insider, said in a blog post.
In that post, LeBlanc asks “If you trust the setting that only exists in Control Panel today, please send your feedback and tell us what those settings are.” This makes it quite clear that Microsoft has plans to close Control Panel in the long term, replacing it with Settings.
Another aspect of the Settings app makeover is how Microsoft “makes your device information copied” on the About page, with a big Copy button.
However, Control Panel is expected to stay until 2021 as Microsoft appears to be approaching this transition in a brick-by-brick method, so it doesn’t smooth out too soon.
