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>Invisible hotspots to bring up necessary dialogs Oh, I disabled that early on so I forgot about it. The only one of significance was the start menu corner, b

>Invisible hotspots to bring up necessary dialogs Oh, I disabled that early on so I forgot about it. The only one of significance was the start menu corner, but that was also remedied in 8.1. >settings split into multiple different places that used to be collected in one place The settings panel is the same as Windows 10. I'd definitely argue against all settings being in one place on 7 though. There's dozens of different locations: control panel, the registry, local/group policy editor, folder options, the "advanced" system settings panel (contains completely unrelated settings such as environmental variables, performance toggles, DEP, and remote assistance). Then there's lots of weird quirky menus like the one you get by entering "control userpasswords2" into the run dialog. I see the new settings panel as a cleaner frontend to the existing settings. Hopefully over time they'll be consolidated there. >flat UI elements I love it. >two conflicting interfaces (tablet UI on a mouse-based device? bleh). I don't see the conflict, but the start screen worked just fine on mouse for me. It took a week to relearn some muscle memory and then I was over it. In the end I found it much more efficient. The targets were larger and it didn't waste a ton of screen space like the current start menu does.

khedoros 10y ago
> Hotspots On my wife's, I remember something about the top-right corner, or along the edge there, and I think it had to do with wifi settings. Those are what I was thinking of. Oh, and swiping away from the lock screen. > Settings All the settings that I actually use are in the control panel. I end up in the registry less than annually, and I've never touched the policy editor, most of the things in the mmc, etc. Things like folder settings aren't what I'd consider OS-wide; it makes sense to have them in Explorer, because that's where they take effect. >dual interfaces Everyone's got their own opinion. It seems like change for the sake of change, to me, and better suited to a tablet UI than a PC one.

khedoros 10y ago

> Hotspots On my wife's, I remember something about the top-right corner, or along the edge there, and I think it had to do with wifi settings. Those are what I was thinking of. Oh, and swiping away from the lock screen. > Settings All the settings that I actually use are in the control panel. I end up in the registry less than annually, and I've never touched the policy editor, most of the things in the mmc, etc. Things like folder settings aren't what I'd consider OS-wide; it makes sense to have them in Explorer, because that's where they take effect. >dual interfaces Everyone's got their own opinion. It seems like change for the sake of change, to me, and better suited to a tablet UI than a PC one.