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I never thought I would find this in control panel
This is definatly from windows Tablet PC edition remember that was a thing when windows first came on tablets. Yeah windows 8 wasnt the first attempt to run windows on tablets infact it was the Tablet PC Edition of windows that was microsoft's first attempt at running windows on a tablet
Stuff like this is why the control panel still hasn't been removed. It isn't laziness, it's research into figuring out if something like this is still necessary and how to port it without accidentally breaking it.
the control panel is also where you still have to manually configure power options like what happens when the laptop is closed on battery or while charging. i dunno why they still havent moved it to the settings app but it's still in cpanel
AFAIK it's the only place to calibrate touch screens, as well as map touch panels to the correct displays. Just used it like 2 weeks ago, and boy was it a pain to find.
This menu is still useful today. After the last cumulative update our TeamsRoom pc got confused about touch inputs from touchscreen tv and interpreted them as touches on the second monitor on the table. I had to calibrate it using this menu and it worked.
So why don’t they? It sounds like a joke question but why doesn’t windows have an unified system theme? Settings are layers on layers of old stuff while the options are still limited.
Back in the XP era we successfully combined XP PRO VL with MEDIA CENTER EDITION and TABLET PC EDITION and used it on all our laptops we were imaging back then (regular laptops and TabletPC laptops of sales men X60T/X61T/X200T/HP tc4400/HP 2730p)...
How do I get to this panel today? Where is it located or what CPL is it?
No I don’t think so. Tablet pc edition was like the worst way to do tablet support I feel like. What I mean is that most programs that ran on xp were built only with desktop in mind
There are still plenty of touchscreen PCs out there, including the likes of the Yoga, which is a 2-in-1 that flips around into a purely tablet mode. It isn't a widely used form factor, but there's still enough of it they want to maintain the support for it.
Windows ink is just a software suite/interface to use digital pen. These settings are still what makes windows Ink work. Theres no point adding dark mode to these as the ultimate goal is to remove them from here and migrate to settings app.
>Yeah windows 8 wasnt the first attempt to run windows on tablets infact it was the Tablet PC Edition of windows that was microsoft's first attempt at running windows on a tablet
I have Windows 3.11 and Windows 95 tablets. XP Tablet edition was far from the first.....
Looks like the responder thought you were implying that the XP tablet thing was the first with pen support and was informing that pen support started in 1992 with "Windows for Pen Computing".
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u/Ryokurin 21h ago
Stuff like this is why the control panel still hasn't been removed. It isn't laziness, it's research into figuring out if something like this is still necessary and how to port it without accidentally breaking it.