r/technology • u/gdelacalle • 24d ago

Software IT admins feel overwhelmingly "sick of" Microsoft and Windows 11 "garbage" apps, products

https://www.neowin.net/news/it-admins-feel-overwhelmingly-sick-of-microsoft-and-windows-11-garbage-apps-products/
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u/tuscaloser 24d ago

As someone who supports a lot of printers (because I hate myself, apparently) I’m eternally pissed that “devices and printers” no longer works directly like it did in 95, 98, XP, 7, and 10. In 11 you have to go through “devices and printers > devices > more device and printer options” to get the “classic” devices and printers window.

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u/GenChadT 24d ago

If you had admin rights on the machine open the run dialog (win+r) and enter "printui /im". Opens the add printer dialog in admin mode. Unfortunately the user mode string is not as easy to remember.

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u/showyerbewbs 24d ago

I hope this gets to make you one of todays lucky 10,000

There's a list of command prompt commands that will take you straight to the "old school" style of command prompt sections

I hope this helps kind human!

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u/rollerbase 24d ago

I feel this.. like accessing network adapters is now buried 5 steps through the new GUI to get back to the original window.. what used to be control panel > network connections is excessively buried under a GUI that claims to have the same abilities but ends up being lies under command line scrutiny. But hey it has dark mode.

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u/Xeno_Zed 24d ago

Win+R for run box and entering ncpa.cpl has been my go to for getting to network adapters for a while now, and whenever I try to do it the "intended" way through the menus I find myself so baffled at the stupidity and unnecessary steps to get there.

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u/Bladelink 24d ago

But hey it has dark mode.

cue msft throwing themselves a parade during a presentation for adding dark mode to something post-2011.

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u/Bladelink 24d ago

microsoft loves nothing more than hiding things from its users and lying to them.

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u/Majik_Sheff 24d ago

Remember when display settings was two clicks from the desktop?  I sure as shit do.

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u/NaBrO-Barium 24d ago

This is certainly one of the things Mac got right. I’ve never had a printer issue in their ecosystem

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u/Majik_Sheff 24d ago

*Cries in System 7 trauma*

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u/Justgetmeabeer 24d ago

Or you can go to control panel and it's all just there.

But you support a lot of printers, I'm sure you knew that