Windows Control Panel has been an essential part of the Windows operating system. When Microsoft released Windows 10, it announced that the Control Panel would eventually be replaced with the Settings app.
Although some Control Panel applets moved to Settings in the nearly ten years that followed, Microsoft never completely removed the Control Panel from Windows.
This August, news broke that Microsoft was set to remove the Control Panel. Microsoft withdrew the deprecation notice shortly thereafter, and it looks like Control Panel is here to stay after all.
tip: Did you know you can directly launch a Windows Control Panel applet?
Microsoft slows down Control Panel
Developer Eric Voirin is best known for the Win98 QuickInstall framework. This is a hobby-project designed to speed up the installation of ancient operating systems.
Voirin discovered a hard-coded delay in the Control Panel applet under Windows 95 and 98. This caused a total delay of eight seconds in the integration of the new hardware into the operating system. Whether it also exists in newer versions of Windows is unclear at this point.
The total waiting time is divided into two segments. First a three-second delay while the generic default name of the class or device is displayed, and then a five-second delay after Windows updates the logo and name to the actual device.
voirin They say That he managed to reduce the entire process to 300 milliseconds.
It's unclear why Microsoft added the delay in the first place. It is possible that there may be technical reasons for this. It's unclear whether further delays have been hardcoded into other parts of the control panel.
The good news is that the delay was not integrated into the Settings app to make it more attractive. This didn't exist in the Windows 9x days.
concluding words
Most Windows users do not need to manually add hardware in the latest versions of Windows. While it may still be beneficial to install manufacturer-provided drivers, most modern devices should have them out of the box.
Older or rare devices may still require drivers and a manual installation process to work on newer versions of Windows.
Have you ever had to manually install a hardware device? Feel free to leave a comment below. (via winfuture,
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