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The absolute worse of this old vs. new split has got to be the two different settings interfaces (Control Panel and Settings) that have some overlap, but other features that are only in one.

Try changing the mouse pointer speed starting on Settings[1]. Or for a bigger challenge, try finding the place to change which Desktop icons appear.[2]

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Answer key:

[1] Settings -> Devices -> Mouse -> Related settings [tiny text on the far right] -> Additional mouse options -> [opens old Control Panel mouse settings] -> Pointer Options -> Motion: Select a pointer speed.

[2] Right-click Desktop -> Personalise -> Themes [!?] -> Related Settings [tiny text on the far right] -> Desktop icon settings

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>the two different settings interfaces (Control Panel and Settings) that have some overlap, but other features that are only in one.

All that's going to happen is we'll lose the control panel eventually, and get an inferior settings reimplementation instead.

That long scroll alone is really, really terrible.

Not being able to open more than 1 settings screen is dumb as well.

Yeah, this kind of thing pisses me off when the UI 'expert' thinks they know more about your workflow than you and wall bits off to help you.

I've seen this many times, the fresh team who have not worked with the old system but has a lot to say about it, starts redesign "properly this time", finds out bringing the new system to the level of the old one is surprisingly a lot of work (not even accounting the required new functionality), gives up redesign half way through or runs out of time, management cannot afford to admit the mistake and goes along with it, users refuse to switch to the new system, the old system is continuously forcefully deprecated.

A funny thing about the desktop icon setting - they are actually aware that it's hard to find so on one of those screens in Settings you get a link like "How do I change the desktop icons?". Clicking that does not take you to screen where you can change it though, instead it opens a help page in your browser that describes the awkward navigation steps to get there.

Don’t forget the genius move of: right click, personalize. Same link on the right about desktop icons that when clicked... ...does a Bing search for where to go to change your desktop icons.

Literally both are links on the right, both behave wildly differently.

Every. Single. Time. I get the bing link first.

>Try changing the mouse pointer speed starting on Settings[1].

Oh, thanks for that! I was looking for that recently and just gave up. From Windows 95 to XP (and maybe Vista?) I could find that setting in 2 seconds. Now? no chance.

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