alt Hacker NewsWhat 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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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.
> 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.
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.