Talk:Control Panel (Windows)

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There are hundreds of things with control panels. I think this should be renamed Control Panel (Windows) or Windows Control Panel. --Oreckel 23:05, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I was actually thinking among the same lines,

yet had not arrived at a suitable way of formulating this idea. There are indeed hundreds of things with control panels. Even within software scope, Windows is not the only operating system with a control panel or something similar. Some of the items in the Windows control panel are most likely also found on other control panels.

So what to do? Some possibilities:
  • Rename to Windows Control Panel (like the shell article is called Windows Explorer and not Explorer (Windows).
  • Start a general article about the concept of control panels, or control panels in computing. Name items that seem to appear in all contol panels. Reference to the Windows Control Panel as well as to some other control panels maybe.
  • Use a disambiguation-thingy to disambiguate between Acme Control Panel and Nottin Control Panel etcetera.
Some of these possibilities are not really compatible. I would appreciate your ideas on this. Shinobu 23:53, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
True, we could make a general article about a Control Panel, then make links to various kinds of Control Panels. Or like you have suggested, very very short introduction about what Control Panels do and various links again. -- WB 05:04, Mar 26, 2005 (UTC)

OK, I kinda solved the issues... (see Control Panel and Windows Control Panel) -- WB 05:17, Mar 26, 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Remove wikify?

I think this article has been sufficently wikified since it was first reported - it only needs to be expanded now. I think we can afford to remove the {{wikify}} section. --Oreckel 03:21, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Sure thing. If someone else doesn't, I'll do it. Shinobu 16:29, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
By the way, is it still useful to mark this article as a stub? Any more detail and it will turn into a help file... Shinobu 17:15, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • I don't think we need {{stub}} anymore. It's defined as something that's a few paragraphs at most. I say take it out and leave {{expand}} in, since it is really lacking in detail at this point. --Oreckel 02:07, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Screenshot

Can anyone with an Enlish version of Windows XP possibly get a screenshot of the Control Panel? I have the Korean version, so it wouldn't be the best picture to put it here. Yeah. WB 08:19, May 6, 2005 (UTC)

That's a nice idea. We could also supply screenshots from the Control Panel of e.g. Windows 1.0, 3.1 and 95 if we can find them. Shinobu 13:43, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
XP is done. -- WB 06:20, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Third party control panels?

What's the point of including three third party control panels in the list? And why this three? Why not a few other hundreds? --Szajd 21:24, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rewrite: Missing the forest for the trees

I'd be much more interested in hearing when CPLs were first introduced to Windows, what changes have been made over the years, etc, etc. than in a detailed list of control panels provided with XP. This article needs some of the useless detail struck and replaced with the things people might actually be interested in. The article currently focuses on identifying individual trees at the expense of any detail but obscure trivia on the forest. --Steven Fisher 22:52, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

This thing doesn't even have detail: one line on Add/Remove Programs, one of the first things a new Windows user needs to know about the Control Panel. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 12:45, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
The article needs to be updated for Windows Vista and have certain details added; however, it does not need to be completely rewritten. Themodernizer 03:27, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
It needs a lot more meaningful detail added, and nearly every line currently in it needs to be removed due to a lack of significance. That is being rewritten. --Steven Fisher 15:21, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
I'd definitely have to agree, in addition to some revisions for the new release of Windows Vista, as stated previously. Chris (Talk) (Contribs) 09:48, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

I think we've just about reached the point where it's time to afd and start over. I'm certain if I tried to remove the useless listing of control panels (each as headings, nice...) it would simply be reverted, so I don't really see any way other than an afd to fix this. --Steven Fisher 20:20, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] create new page

Perhaps it would be better to create a new "control panel components" page or something similar to list the individual cpl's and then have the orignal page focusing on the history of the control panel etc. 82.3.231.190 22:29, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vista update

Is the Control Panel in Vista exactly the same as the XP one, with identical components? If not, why is there no mention of Vista in this article? Ygoloxelfer 14:29, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion of material

In this diff Themodernizer removed a lot of material. While I agree (as does hopefully everyone) that some rewrite is necessary, removing material like this is not very productive, since material that is removed cannot easily be rewritten. Some of the removed material could for example be used productively in a "Techinical details" section. Shinobu 00:47, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

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