"We set out to solve one of the most common frustrations we hear — finding and changing settings on your PC — using the power of AI agents," Navjot Virk, corporate vice president of Windows Experiences at Microsoft, said in a blog post on Tuesday. "An agent uses on-device AI to understand your intent and with your permission, automate and execute tasks."

Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings

Microsoft says the new AI agents can find and change settings for users when given a natural language command.

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Perhaps you could just make them easier to find by putting them in one location... You could call it a "control panel".

Misses the point.

Firstly they still have the control panel.

Secondly they are slowly transitioning everything relevant from the control panel to the settings app.

Thirdly even having everything in the control panel didn’t make it easy to find exactly what you wanted.

This makes it so you can just say “set my power profile to balanced” and it would do so. That’s a nice, welcome addition.

Misses the point.

Firstly they still have the control panel.

Secondly they are slowly transitioning everything relevant from the control panel to the settings app.

Thirdly even having everything in the control panel didn’t make it easy to find exactly what you wanted.

This makes it so you can just say “set my power profile to balanced” and it would do so. That’s a nice, welcome addition.

Bullshit to all those points. If you couldnt find it in the control panel before, you sure as shit cant find it now.

Also, they've been "slowly" transitioning for over two years, wtf? We waiting for the next OS at this point?

I do NOT need voice activation, I know how to use a keyboard and mouse, the core components of input for a computer.

You want to use your voice, talk to your mom cause I'm done with her.

j/k on the mom part

I know what the point is. It sucks.

Firstly they still have the control panel.

For now

Secondly they are slowly transitioning everything relevant from the control panel to the settings app.

The settings app is half-baked dog shit.

Thirdly even having everything in the control panel didn’t make it easy to find exactly what you wanted.

It was certainly easier than the current state of things.

This makes it so you can just say “set my power profile to balanced” and it would do so. That’s a nice, welcome addition.

Sure assuming the AI understands your request and the setting you want hasn't been removed because they wanted to put everything in the settings app and the one you wanted conflicts with their data gathering and add presentation and it's not running in the background bogging down your system all the time or trying to interject itself into whatever you're trying to do without involving it.

For now

Yes, for now. I even said as much, because Microsoft have made their plans on getting rid of it very clear and open. It's slowly being replaced by moving everything to the settings app.

The settings app is half-baked dog shit.

You could say that it's slowly getting all the features added to it, couldn't you? What is "half baked dog shit" about it?

It was certainly easier than the current state of things.

What was easier to find in the control panel than it is in settings?

Sure assuming the AI understands your request and the setting you want hasn’t been removed because they wanted to put everything in the settings app

You think that the AI would not have access and knowledge of the settings app? They made no mention of the AI Agents only being able to make changes in the control panel.

and it’s not running in the background bogging down your system all the time

You've never actually used windows 11, have you?

If you couldnt find it in the control panel before, you sure as shit cant find it now.

Oh you've tried this new AI Agent that can change the settings for you, have you?

Bullshit to all those points.

Which points are "bullshit"? That they're slowly moving everything out of the control panel to the settings app? This is literally what they've been telling us they're doing, and what we've seen them do.

That they still have the control panel? Nope, not bullshit, it's still there.

That being able to ask Copilot to change a setting would be helpful? How is that bullshit?

I do NOT need voice activation

Good thing it's not MANDATORY then. You can keep using your mouse and keyboard. Also you don't have to use your VOICE for copilot - it's much easier to use the mouse and keyboard. That's how most people use it.

Also, they’ve been “slowly” transitioning for over two years, wtf? We waiting for the next OS at this point?

This stuff takes time unfortunately. If they change everything at once they get even more anger and pushback. This way it's just a slow and easy move away from the control panel - 1 thing here, 2 things there, and before you know it hey look! Everything is in the settings app now!

Oh good mum joke big fella! So clever and badarse.

"We set out to solve one of the most common frustrations we hear — finding and changing settings on your PC — using the power of AI agents," Navjot Virk, corporate vice president of Windows Experiences at Microsoft, said in a blog post on Tuesday. "An agent uses on-device AI to understand your intent and with your permission, automate and execute tasks."

Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings

Microsoft says the new AI agents can find and change settings for users when given a natural language command.

CNET (www.cnet.com)

Ah Christ. We’ve collectively regressed so much in computer knowledge that people can’t even find a settings menu? Even I have trouble believing that one.

"We set out to solve one of the most common frustrations we hear — finding and changing settings on your PC — using the power of AI agents," Navjot Virk, corporate vice president of Windows Experiences at Microsoft, said in a blog post on Tuesday. "An agent uses on-device AI to understand your intent and with your permission, automate and execute tasks."

Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings

Microsoft says the new AI agents can find and change settings for users when given a natural language command.

CNET (www.cnet.com)

The last time finding settings in Windows was straight forward was Windows 95. Since the stupid dumbed down 'settings' app was vomited upon us, it has been nearly impossible to find the thing you know is there but has now been renamed and moved, and isn't even indexed in the settings app search bar.

"We set out to solve one of the most common frustrations we hear — finding and changing settings on your PC — using the power of AI agents," Navjot Virk, corporate vice president of Windows Experiences at Microsoft, said in a blog post on Tuesday. "An agent uses on-device AI to understand your intent and with your permission, automate and execute tasks."

Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings

Microsoft says the new AI agents can find and change settings for users when given a natural language command.

CNET (www.cnet.com)

What is “half baked dog shit” about it?

The fact that they're moving things over slowly instead of just fucking finishing it before they deploy it all at once. They've been doing this since Windows 10 came out, they have a trillion dollars. There's no excuse to have it be half assed for so long especially considering "Settings" isn't even an improvement.

What was easier to find in the control panel than it is in settings?

Literally everything? You don't have to click through 14 different menus to drill down to what you're looking for. It's all on one window in Control Panel. Just look at Devices and Printers in Control Panel vs. Devices in settings or Programs and Features vs. Apps and features the newer versions have far less information available at a glance.

You’ve never actually used windows 11, have you?

I use it every day on my work PC. It runs like ass.

"Hey Copilot. Delete yourself, Recall and all other bloatware from my system. Thank you."

Holy shit.

Your ux SUCKS SO MUCH, that instead of making it not shitty.....

You developed AI for it?

Are you fucking kidding me

How inept are these developers

The registry never has and never will be simple nor usable. Windows is rotten to the core.

Have you tried to configure gnome beyond what is offered in its GUI ?

Copilot: "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"