about inefficiency on many clicks and sub menus

m18xr2 · 14 Feb 2024

not really sure how to explain this

but a quick compare to win7 and 8 vs 10 it says a lot. 10 have a bunch of menu and options hidden under menu of another sub menu, versus 7 and 8 its much more open and similar area so you dont have to click so much just to get to 1 settings.

an example:
to get to the below screen in windows 8 equivalent

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2 clicks + 1 mouse movement on context menu
right click PC in explorer -> right click properties

now for win 10 and up
3 clicks + 2 mouse movements (context menu + settings page) + waiting 1-2 seconds
right click PC in explorer -> right click properties -> wait for 1-2 seconds to load settings page -> click on advanced system settings

for power user this is kinda torture, anything to make this easier? window 10 has some neat features added but UI/access wise going backwards

any suggestion of 3rd party software maybe that can show a TON of feature in 1 spot rather than searching, clicking forever under win10

dalchina · 14 Feb 2024

Hi, very much depends what you want to do as to how best to get there.

E.g. for me: Control panel:

a. search options from the taskbar search
or
b. Open Shell start menu search box
or
c. Open Shell start menu - cascaded control panel applets (1 click, move mouse, hover to display)

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(oops, chopped a few off the bottom with my screenshot including System)

To get to the one you show another way (there are various):