“It wasn’t elegant, but it would do until the elegant UI arrived.” It never did.
Always a hoot when you click through Windows 11 settings and get taken to menus from 8, 7, I think there’s still a few vista menus hidden in there.
“Temporary” disk formatting UI from 1994 still lives on in Windows 11
Submitted 8 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
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WillySpreadum@lemmy.world 8 months ago
DasGurke@feddit.de 8 months ago
NightAuthor@lemmy.world 8 months ago
lol, yeah I came across a pretty old dialog when manually installing my printer on windows 11 the other day. Got prompted to insert a floppy disk with the driver.
yuriy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There’s settings that only exist in the older menus too. I hate the settings overhaul from 10, it turned troubleshooting into a goddamn scavenger hunt. Toggles that used to live in dialog boxes on the taskbar are suddenly behind 2 separate settings windows that both somehow always take a second to load. Just so I can click a single button, usually to open another superfluous settings window.
I swear to god microsoft is the only company simultaneously making their product worse and harder to use for both general AND power users.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Even since 10, they keep moving shit around. I’ll Google how to disable some stupid feature and then have to search through the results to figure out which one still applies.
Also, anyone else notice that in the MS support threads, almost every single first response is useless and doesn’t even really address the specific question being asked but a very basic version of it? And then 50/50 whether a better reply comes in after the OP says they already tried that (and said so in their OP) or that the response has nothing to do with what they actually asked.
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Sometimes the new settings UI and the old settings UI aren’t synced and will conflict with eachother, windows 10 has at least 3 volume settings menus (the oldest is from XP) and at least 2 of them operate independantly of eachother with the actual sound output being the average of the two.
pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 8 months ago
What’s a pain in the ass is when you have to try to get to those menus to do something like change an environmental variable or restart a network adapter.
Microsoft has been making it more and more difficult to efficiently administer Windows.
catloaf@lemm.ee 8 months ago
They actually made the environment variable editor a lot better in a recent version, at least for the path. It looks like this now: lemm.ee/…/ea62bdcb-8165-4e8d-a9bd-a9d76439f76d.we…
umbrella@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
i remember many of them from the xp era
KeenFlame@feddit.nu 8 months ago
It is elegant though. Please don’t “improve” it please
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
These are the only good, clean and functionally bug free pieces of code in the entire windows system probably.
Hexagon@feddit.it 8 months ago
Nothing is as permanent as a temporary solution
BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 8 months ago
There is no temporary solution in IT. Do it once and do it well.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And if it’s in Windows, make sure it’s in a tiny window that you can’t resize.
witty_username@feddit.nl 8 months ago
Simultaneously, there is no perfect solution in it. Do it once, do it well, regret it later. Then do it once again
FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There’s nothing more permanent than a good temporary fix.
M68040@hexbear.net 8 months ago
Nature will not heal until the “make system disk” option makes a comeback, complete with Windows ME-ass DOS system files
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 8 months ago
Don’t remind them, they’ll replace it with a new UI with ads and bing AI.