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Everything I need is still in in the old settings windows that haven't changed in 23 years
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I don't know why I even bother opening the settings app
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Remember when they planned to move over all the Control Panel settings to the Settings app?
In Windows 10?
I still extensively use:
Win+R
ncpa.cpl
It's still the only way I know how to easily and quickly change my NIC settings.
The worst part is to change some things it adds like an extra 4 clicks to the old method.
Windows 11 had a link to that in under the advanced network options.
I say had as a recent update just took it away. They added a new advanced settings to replace the network connections part you linked to, but it is still missing options. Almost 10 years of the new settings and still no way to enable split tunneling on a vpn in the new UI.
And then at the final click, it takes you to that control panel screen anyway lol
And this here is the icing on the cake, isn't it?
You can reduce keystrokes on that. Just tap the Win key instead of Win+R. Type ncpa.cpl and hit enter.
If you work on as many servers and desktops as I do, you'll eventually encounter machines that have slow loading start menus and search, or search the web for some stupid ass reason instead. I'll save that time with adding R. Still a 1 handed move anyhow
The reason was actually documented at the end of Halo 3; when Cortana got rampancy and subsequently infected all of our windows 10 start menus.
If you're such a server and desktop expert, why are you not setting a GPO to disable the start menu web features??
If you're such a server and desktop support expert, how do you gpo random client that call in, or new client and environments when you know nothing about them, or friend and families computers?
Listen, kid, when you've been in the game long enough you'll come across unique scenarios enough to a point where it is God damn annoying.
Also who the hell GPOs network settings?
Kid. Lol. I've been in the game since before the invention of Windows servers
The start menu searching the web isn't a network setting. It's a setting for the behavior of the start menu.
You change a single flag in the registry on Windows and it tells the Start Menu not to do the behavior of searching the web. The unusual scenario as you cannot it is a common feature that can be turned on and off. The GPO lets you set that flag administratively. It's not unique, and it's something my level 1 help desk guys under my teams had no problem learning.
You've either been in the game long enough to become senile or the more likely case is your the kid and have no idea what you're doing.
Bonus: there's another flag to set the Start Menu to not search files. Set that one too and the search is lightning fast and only shows you programs and settings options.
I'm 90% sure that is the only way to change settings past just showing what you are connected to. Does/can anyone actually use settings over the control panel tools?
I still don't know this and we are already talking windows 12 lol