What about bringing back old notepad and improving admin apps?

MMC snapins haven't been touched in years and still can't even sort those columns properly, search and filtering is terrible

Control panel is still not migrated over to settings after 12 years nor you can open two settings apps.

Error messages in modern apps are just the worst, how about printing valuable error messages than "something is wrong"?

Fixing dark patterns like taking over your screen with popups and taking over the application header so you can't close windows unless you go to the task manager. First time opening edge shows a really annoying splash screen + home page is filled with ads.

Also where are 5 second boot times on NVMe SSDs? Anything more is just sloppy.

Just to list a few pet peeves

But let's see if they can even fix things they've mentioned in the post, though that's like 1/4 of the issues that should be fixed.

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ZeWaka an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I actually like the features on new notepad (like dark mode and markdown, not the Copilot garbage), but 300MB of memory for notepad.exe is fucking hilarious.

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userbinator 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Old notepad is still there, you just need to remove the new abomination.

Control panel is still not migrated over to settings after 12 years nor you can open two settings apps.

I wish they'd migrate back to the old Control Panel...

Error messages in modern apps are just the worst

...as the new one is a "modern app" and about as horrible as they come.

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jiggawatts 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> improving admin apps?

They have a bunch of replacements, all of which are slow as molasses and not feature complete.

1. Server Manager.

2. Windows Admin Centre.

3. Settings App (same as desktop).

4. PowerShell

5. DSC

6. Azure Arc

There's also Active Directory Administrative Center which never replaced dsa.msc for me or anyone I've ever worked with.

Similarly, there's like half a dozen performance monitor tools for Windows Server, and they're all terrible and are missing critical features.

	▲	lousken 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		i've stopped administrating windows some time ago so hopefully my response is still accurate - 1. deprecated lol 2. i think it can't be run on things like AD, so for very small companies this is annoying 3. ... that's not really an admin app? 4. sure, but then i might as well switch to linux if i have to stick to cli (and i did) 5. last time i checked there were two versions, incompatible with one another, not great alternative to ansible 6. if you have hybrid and are in azure already, maybe? haven't used I mean it's not like there are not 5 alternatives in azure/intune for every thing as well that are half baked. And 365 and azure is worse with terrible migration guides, ms graph with a combination of commands and json inputs and defaults from 2016. It's really time for microsoft to fully commit to one thing, make it good, finish it and deprecate everything else.