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It’s like how Windows seems to have at least four different control panels now. There’s whatever comes up if you search for, say, “user accounts”. There’s the
by amluto 4y ago
It’s like how Windows seems to have at least four different control panels now. There’s whatever comes up if you search for, say, “user accounts”. There’s the actual Control Panel. There’s MMC. And there’s the group policy editor. (Maybe that last one gets a pass.)
And all of these partially duplicate functionality. Want to change the password of a different user account? You can’t do it from the user account panel - you can only do it from the other user account panel.
- lazide 4y agoSame half baked changes. It was too time consuming to change everything, so they only changed surface level stuff that ‘normal’ users need.
- rejectfinite 4y agoMMC and Group policy do way more than user accounts. But yes it is a mess and only as an IT person I can somewhat make sense of when to use the modern Settings - Accounts, Control Panel users, MMC or sysdm.cpl
- userbinator 4y agoAnd there’s the group policy editor. (Maybe that last one gets a pass.) I've always joked that the gpedit.msc is where the real settings are. It's one of the pieces that has stayed the same (and even been added to) while all the other parts are gradually dumbed-down and becoming less useful.
- autoexec 4y agoInterestingly that's the one they decided to take away from the vast majority of their users. Just because Windows users paid for it doesn't mean it's not Microsoft's computer and MS doesn't want users messing with their stuff.