Microsoft has finally begun replacing the decades-old File Explorer Properties dialog with a modern version.
  • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    2 days ago

    I can’t wait for around 80% of features moving to this one and needing to perform some kind of ancient incantation to access the old version for the remaining 20%

  • amio@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    2 days ago

    Why are the literal only two things they know how to do:

    • spamming AI slop into shit
    • half-assedly, inconsistently and pointlessly pick some old-ass UI to “reinvent” in a worse way than the 9x era shit??

    Seriously? (Well, not seriously seriously. Rhetorically “seriously”.)

  • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
    13·
    2 days ago

    Microsoft has a responsibility to support decades-old software, which is why you can download an app or game made for Windows 95 and still run it on Windows 11.

    Eh, debatable, some titles of the 90s might not run, even if you set the executable to run in compatibility mode.

    My other concern is that WinUI surfaces have historically paid a cold-start cost when loading the runtime. Even today, File Explorer’s WinUI context menu gets criticized for exactly that. The WinUI-based Home tab in File Explorer is slower than “This PC,” which does not use WinUI.

    M$ wondering why people are pinching their noses when near w11 when they’ve been slopping all over it. Release something broken, “fix” it later, only this is going way, way worse than XP (which needed 2 service packs to “feel good” and be safer), Vista (which needed W7) and even 8 (which needed W10)

    • Mikina@programming.devEnglish
      8·
      2 days ago

      Yeah, this will be a vibecoded disaster.

      IIRC they had to start overclocking your CPU a while back, when you right-click on a file so the Win11m rightclick menu loads faster than after like 8 seconds.

  • HeyJoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 days ago

    I still type appwiz.cpl into search to open the old add and remove programs box to uninstall or see whats installed. I am not a fan of the newer looking one at all located in the new settings area. It is pretty funny that they have been working on trying to fully replace all the old windows elements since the beginning of 10 and still not even close. Even funnier that when it is replaced the old stuff still gets left behind and not removed either.

    • yeehaw@lemmy.caEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      And ncpa.cpl for network settings. And regedit. And msinfo32. And and and…

      New ui stuff is so shit. Dozens of clicks. Always moving around. Annoying af

      • HeyJoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        I absolutely hate the network settings now as well. Its now easier to just get cmd to find out my IP if needed instead of getting to the adapter and open to see the info and up time. Its just extra steps to do that same thing now and i always forget what to click on when under the new settings network page. If anything it should just be info displayed there by default which would be nice…

    • radix@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      What I really don’t understand is how Microsoft has a near religious dedication to backwards compatibility at the technical level, but will move on to whatever next shiny object they see when it comes to compatibility at the user level.

      Relearning the basic functionality of operating a computer every few years rests entirely on the end user, and never on the developer. It’s aggressively backwards.

      • Archer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        Pretty easy to explain, you’re not the customer, corpos paying 8 figures annually who need to run their 90s software are