I don't see why this is useful :/ The fastest way to get to any advanced options that you can't get to through 2-3 clicks in the control panel is the Run window.
I'd imagine this is hidden for the same reason that Administrative Tasks is fairly out-of-the-way in control panel by default - so average joe can't break his installation.
Yeah, this "hit" the 'net back in January. Even CNet managed to get ahold of it....
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10423985-56.html
YouTube vid showing how to enable it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpifM8Q8yIk (Jan. 8)
Last edited by Humminn55; 04-23-2010 at 02:57 AM.
thats cause in vista and win7 all the options are very decentralized... i really dont like that...Originally Posted by RPGWiZaRD
Well this was news to me! Like this layout better, I still have trouble finding stuff quickly in the cpanel compared to XP altho I've used Win 7 for over a year. I just don't seem to adapt to the newer GUI layouts like MS Office 2007 or Vista/Win 7 layouts compared to XP/2000 etc (takes more than twice as long to find the stuff for me usually so it's counterproducting to me). I'm the guy that would prefer everything to be found under dropdown menus.
lets say i want to disable shadows of desktop icons, right?
thats desktop properties, so youd expect it to be accessible through a right click on the desktop in some menu, but no...
start->right click on system->proberties->advanced system settings->advanced->performance->settings->scroll down, and there, hidden in a menu far far away between dozens of settings, it is...
so then lets adjust the distance between desktop icons, their background color, or their size... same thing right? properties of the desktop... but no, its a different menu and hidden in a completely different place
right click on the desktop->personalize->window color->item->icon spacing etc...
how are people supposed to find this stuff?
theres no tutorial, theres no help entry about this, there is help for this when searching... i dont get it... for a company with a few dozen THOUSAND coders plus god knows how many external coders in india, you would think they could come up with an easy to find and use options menu for the desktop, no? or at LEAST create a tutorial on how to use it, or even a search entry with a quick text guide on how to do it which would take like 1-2 hours to write up and implement MAX!
lol wtfI'm not joking. As was said, in Vista x64 this can cause a system crash.
yeah, i figured id get flamed for posting old news, but since there was no thread about this, i thought hey, as long as its new and useful for one person thats worth to post about itPretty useful for those who didn't know about it nonetheless.
You just don't go to the Control Panel, you just hit the start button and start typing what you need and viola there you have the settings pane you needed.Well this was news to me! Like this layout better, I still have trouble finding stuff quickly in the cpanel compared to XP altho I've used Win 7 for over a year. I just don't seem to adapt to the newer GUI layouts like MS Office 2007 or Vista/Win 7 layouts compared to XP/2000 etc (takes more than twice as long to find the stuff for me usually so it's counterproducting to me). I'm the guy that would prefer everything to be found under dropdown menus.
It's even faster to just start typing in the start menu search box, no need to do it through the run dialog.
I'd say the options are a little too centralized for some. I like the way the Control Panel is configured in Vista and Windows 7 though, it makes it much easier to find something for me.
EDIT: Let me clarify that a little, I mean to say that the Control Panel is a little too centralized, not necessarily the options in general.
BTW for changing the shadows of your desktop icons, just hit the 'Windows' key, type 'shadow' and then hit enter.
For changing the icon spacing just hit the Windows key, type 'metric' and then hit enter.
The problem with these things though is that you have to know what to search for. The search box in the start menu is useful, but it's no Google.
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I just tried this on my Vista x64 laptop, it caused Explorer.exe to crash and restart repeatedly making the system unusable. I had to use a command prompt to delete the folder so it would stop crashing.
If a few days means more than a year then yes, it's a few days old.
oh, sorry man... i added a note in the first post...
well then whats the point of the search function if you have to know what exact word to search for to get the result your looking for?
it works pretty well with some stuff, but microsoft really has to work some more on it... i dont get it btw, how come they have such an awesome engine with bing, supposedly, but their search in windows is rather dull?
i had too google around a lot to figure out how to customize windows7 to the point that i like it and didnt consider it a step backwards in functionality over windows xp...
Last edited by saaya; 04-23-2010 at 04:46 AM.
Old news is old.just read about it... has any of you guys used it?
I couldnt find a thread about this... but its really useful, and its only a few days old, so i figured id post about it here...
go to your desktop, create a new folder, rename it to:
and then double click it...
nothing hidden or special, but all the shortcuts are really useful at adjusting windows settings...
EDIT2: DO NOT TRY THIS ON VISTA 64! itll crash explorer
EDIT: oh it works on vista too btw, and on xp you can get it working with a hack/tool...
funny that MS managed to keep this a secret for so long...
more importantly, why? i really dont get why they are hiding this menu, its so convenient...
this should be the first menu that pops up everytime somebody installs windows...
Ah That's right, it did crash Vista-64. I heard about this 1-2 years ago in the development circle for vista. That's why it was disregarded back then due to crashes with Explorer.
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Remember, MS is making Windows more "user friendly." This typically means throwing efficiency out the window in order to get a nice flow of next, next, next menus instead. After all, that's what people want. User friendliness is directly proportional to the number of clicks required to perform a task. The more clicks, the more friendly it is.
yeah old news is old.. and the vista 64bit crash is a fun thing... good times back in december 2009.
Last edited by Hornet331; 04-23-2010 at 05:27 AM.
Less actually.
Windows key, type, enter.
You can do anything administrative this way.
Open any location.
Open any program.
Change any setting.
User friendly, less clicks:
Jump list, open any recently opened shiz by holding the click and dragging up.
Navigate to desktop with one click on the bottom right.
Resize any window to half size without dragging and scaling.
Pinning programs to the start bar.
I really can't be bothered typing more, safe to say. You failed. Miserably failed.
oh come on, dont be so rude
as for me... i prefer muse navigation over typing tbh...
i really like shortcuts like alt tab, windows key+F for search, +X for mobility center, +D for desktop, alt F4, shift+alt+end for high contrast mode when im outside and the sun is shining and i cant see shoite, ctrl to show a visual radar ping to show me where the mouse pointer is at, f11 in firefox for fullscreen mode...
but yeah, i still like mouse browsing a lot... especially mouse gestures...
Well, it's new news for me, so thanks, Saaya.It's a PITA to remember all the commands name to type in the run box so this is pretty useful.
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That is exactly what I do (in fact the start menu search is the one feature added in Vista that I actually found added value over XP, alot of value). But if this was truly the user friendly way of doing things, why then do we have a control panel full of 4-level-deep menus? Because the majority of people consider clicking madly through menus to be "user friendly." The most efficient way of doing almost anything is by typing, which is why the command line will never disappear. Nobody likes the CLI though, it's not "user friendly".
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another worthless thread just to increase post count..gotta get 12 a day somehow
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osx is the best .
are you clueless or what.............
hat-trick
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You realize that the op claimed that this was new info in his first post then brushed off complaints by saying he knew it was old. This is valuable info but not news and doesn't belong in the news section. I think it's fair to to give the op a hard time when he's posting just for the sake of posting.
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osx is the best .
are you clueless or what.............
hat-trick
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osx has the worst mouse movement in any os
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mouse movement , mouse movement..........I dont need no stinking mouse movement.
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come on man! its really useful, and i didnt know it was that old...
it was one of the top news stories on yahoo.de this morning, which linked to computerbild, germanys biggest computer magazine, and their story was new as well... since they mention that it works in vista as well i suspected that it might not be fresh... so i searched on xs and couldnt find any thread about this in the news section, so i figured i just post it here since it doesnt seem to be too old...
pff, why would i do that? posting for the sake of posting? do you think after almost 10 years on this board and 30.000 posts i give a damn about post count? all it does is get me comments like this
your right though, i didnt know it was THAT old, so ill ask a mod to merge it to the old thread in the OS section (where itll probably die and nobody finds out about this neat control panel, but im tired of complains :P)
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