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The Control Panel in Vista is flawed, as well as the one in 7, please at least admit it. The one in XP was the best. You don't end up with 10 billion opened windows when you're doing something.

ok how is searching the control panel opening up several different windows , when i search in the CP it uses the same window when i want to find power related options i type in PO or if i want Power and only Power related options are shown . saves time from me having to manually search and pick through the CP in category view or classic view just to find Power related options

You sir must be smoking something and using some Alternate universe version of windows 7 cause you Are Flawed Not windows 7

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ok how is searching the control panel opening up several different windows , when i search in the CP it uses the same window when i want to find power related options i type in PO or if i want Power and only Power related options are shown . saves time from me having to manually search and pick through the CP in category view or classic view just to find Power related options

Did I really say Search opened up so many windows :sleep:

What I said is, open the control panel. You have 1 window.

Try fixing your wireless network. You're opening 2nd window.

Try changing the resolution of your desktop. You're getting a 3rd window.

Try changing the background of your desktops. 4th.

And so on. Now I wish I wasn't comparing to OS X because you guys will call me fanboy (no surprise), but this is the only example I've got and it's a good one. Use System preferences for 5 whole minutes and you might learn it by heart already. The navigation's real simple, there's still this search function that you guys are crying for, and you never get to open another window. Sometimes you're opening a small window (some kind of form) in the window, but it never hides the rest, you can still see where you are and what you're doing.

And the network panes are probably the worse I've ever seen in Vista. In XP SP2, there was that icon at the bottom which fired up a wireless network manager. But you could also go to control panel > networks and that window did different things than the first one. This was already cluttered a bit. In Vista, this part is simply chaos. You get like 4 different windows if not more, all with different options, some of them are easy to find through the OS, some others are more complicated, etc.

Also, the layout of the control panel is pretty long to read. I've worked with interfaces at school and I know what I'm talking about. For a new Windows user, yes he'll read all of the choices and take as much time no matter what. But for an old-time Windows user, he'll still get to read like the whole window like the new user and take probably as much time. This isn't like Office 2007 at all, where you could browse really quickly in the whole app interface, without opening dozens of windows for nothing. This is what I called a streamlined and easy to use interface. If you're an old time Office user, you still get to learn it, but not from scratch.

You sir must be smoking something and using some Alternate universe version of windows 7 cause you Are Flawed Not windows 7

Thanks for the free trolling!

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Did I really say Search opened up so many windows :sleep:

What I said is, open the control panel. You have 1 window.

Try fixing your wireless network. You're opening 2nd window.

Try changing the resolution of your desktop. You're getting a 3rd window.

Try changing the background of your desktops. 4th.

And so on. Now I wish I wasn't comparing to OS X because you guys will call me fanboy (no surprise), but this is the only example I've got and it's a good one. Use System preferences for 5 whole minutes and you might learn it by heart already. The navigation's real simple, there's still this search function that you guys are crying for, and you never get to open another window. Sometimes you're opening a small window (some kind of form) in the window, but it never hides the rest, you can still see where you are and what you're doing.

And the network panes are probably the worse I've ever seen in Vista. In XP SP2, there was that icon at the bottom which fired up a wireless network manager. But you could also go to control panel > networks and that window did different things than the first one. This was already cluttered a bit. In Vista, this part is simply chaos. You get like 4 different windows if not more, all with different options, some of them are easy to find through the OS, some others are more complicated, etc.

Also, the layout of the control panel is pretty long to read. I've worked with interfaces at school and I know what I'm talking about. For a new Windows user, yes he'll read all of the choices and take as much time no matter what. But for an old-time Windows user, he'll still get to read like the whole window like the new user and take probably as much time. This isn't like Office 2007 at all, where you could browse really quickly in the whole app interface, without opening dozens of windows for nothing. This is what I called a streamlined and easy to use interface. If you're an old time Office user, you still get to learn it, but not from scratch.

Thanks for the free trolling!

Although there are more steps along the way (comapred to XP), I think 7 and Vista have a more streamlined control panel. I wouldn't compare it to OS X because SysPrefs don't do as much as the control panel (stuff like disk management is out of SysPrefs).

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What I said is, open the control panel. You have 1 window.

Try fixing your wireless network. You're opening 2nd window.

Try changing the resolution of your desktop. You're getting a 3rd window.

Try changing the background of your desktops. 4th.

And so on. Now I wish I wasn't comparing to OS X because you guys will call me fanboy (no surprise), but this is the only example I've got and it's a good one. Use System preferences for 5 whole minutes and you might learn it by heart already. The navigation's real simple, there's still this search function that you guys are crying for, and you never get to open another window. Sometimes you're opening a small window (some kind of form) in the window, but it never hides the rest, you can still see where you are and what you're doing.

Wait, what?

If I'm doing what you're doing, everything says confined in ONE window. One.

- Open Control Panel. To look at my wireless network I'd go to Network and Sharing Center, then click Change adapter settings. Still the same window. Dialog boxes will spawn if you hit the Properties for a specific window, but otherwise when you're done you're back to the same first window.

- Backtrack to All Control Panel items then go to Personalization. Still the same window.

- Change the wallpaper. Still the same window.

- If you want to change the resolution, there's a "Display" link in Personalization, but you can backtrack to All Control Panel items then hit Display. Still the same window.

And the network panes are probably the worse I've ever seen in Vista. In XP SP2, there was that icon at the bottom which fired up a wireless network manager. But you could also go to control panel > networks and that window did different things than the first one. This was already cluttered a bit. In Vista, this part is simply chaos. You get like 4 different windows if not more, all with different options, some of them are easy to find through the OS, some others are more complicated, etc.

In case you forgot, this topic is about Windows 7, and thus Windows 7's control panel. Some of these extra windows have been fixed (yes, another window does spawn for wireless networks in Vista, but this has been rectified in 7). Same goes for the wireless manager. It's just one panel now.

I'm not sure if you're still complaining about Windows 7's control panel or Vista's, but judging by this earlier comment of yours:

So yeah, a friend told me that apparently Windows 7 may be better than Vista in many aspects, but the control panel got even WORSE and nobody talked about it. That part in Vista can be understood in many months, but when something like this in 7 can only be understood after a few years, there's a huge problem with the UI.

you're still under the impression that Windows 7 did nothing to simplify the control panel. And you would be wrong.

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Control Panel is really poorly designed. At least they could revert it back as it was in Vista. Search is alright right now. That's the best you can get by having search bar in Start Menu. I still think Search Bar should be on taskbar.

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