I lied, before, by the way... I thought about it right after posting but never got around to correcting it. When Windows ran on top of DOS... it was still pretty much just another program. You could do with it or without it and you still could do whatever you wanted with no lockout to anything in your PC.
Ever since 95 up until now it has progressively become more like the MCP from Tron. Everything must go through the MCP first and your access to the system can be limited.
Having said that, I was a huge fan of 95 and have a support story for it I like to think about. Was a big fan of Vista when lots of people including techs didn't like it and I like Windows 7 well enough to never switch again.
Yeah, the Kontiki example. Or to wit, the movie Master & Commander: The Far Side of The World (GREAT film if you haven't seen it.) If your ship is critically damaged, you take floatwood and hull parts from damaged ships to repair it, at what point is it a new ship? According to the British Navy in that movie, the H.M.S. Surprise remained herself throughout, since the captain deemed it so.
Yeah, exactly! I hadn't hardly used any floatwood at all and they were calling my ship new. I think your ship should be the same ship until you no longer float her (especially with that tiny price difference for single copy OEM's). Just like that captain. They get to keep me to one PC, and, they are going to stop supporting whatever sails they sold me at some point anyway... So, let me ship, remain me ship until I no longer float'er, Arrrr!
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In Windows 8, the gist of the operating system was that PC Settings (the predecessor of the Settings Panel of Windows 10) had basic support information and limited controls to affect the computer. The intent was that Power Users would ignore the app and continue to use Control Panel. Mainstream users who don't know what settings cause restarts from those that are harmless are left with the Settings panel and relative safety as nothing in the panel would cause your system to fail to start.
So far, that's the aim in Windows 10. Even Windows 8 had recovery options in the PC Settings panel, but Windows 10 the majority of features removed from the Control Panel are redundant ones that aren't considered 'advanced'.
Sooooo Control Panel still exists? And all the stuff inside it still exists, it just may be in a different or two places?