Currently, there are many settings/registry keys that developers desire to tweak that are either not accessible via the Windows Settings app and/or are difficult to discover throughout the OS. Users may have to resort to running scripts or manually changing registry keys to get their machine into their ideal state. Furthermore, there is not a single place for developers to discover and tweak new Windows features specific to developer workflows that are in development and provide feedback on them. This means that developers may not even be aware of features or settings that they can tweak to improve their workflows and optimize their productivity/machine performance. Finally, lots of developers have to search the web to find the best settings to tweak to optimize their machine for their specific use case — there isn’t a single place to find what settings are recommended by fellow developers.
Microsoft is soliciting feedback on a possible new settings panel that would centralise popular advanced settings in Windows that currently require registry hacks or are otherwise difficult to find. The company wants to know which features and settings are a good fit for such a panel, and what such a panel should look like.
This is an excellent idea, and something I’m sure many of the Windows users here would love to see.
They should just roll these new potential settings into the PowerTools package they’ve already revived and are improving from the old days.
Ahh, PowerToys! not tools!
This could easily be the reverse of Thom’s commentary, and be the B test for a greatly reduce CP for general users.
Maybe we’ll end up wit two CPs, the dunderhead version,. and the MS Licensed Sys Admin version.
At best, we’ll suffer three, rather than the current two settings apps. And then we’ll still have to resort to regedit to do anything reasonable.
Oh, so… the old Control Panel?