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In windows 11, how do I get the old menu's to come up?
For example, from the control panel, if I click on "devices and printers", I get the new settings app.
But, when the run menu, if I type shell:printersfolder
the file explorer shows up showing me the list of printers, exactly what I want.
Seems to me that with windows 11, the new settings splash screens are junk, half of the time, they don't display what I need, or install what I need in the case with RSAT tools.
Is there some registry hack to use the old screens that actually were useful?
If I right click on the sart menu and select computer management, the printes are not even there either.
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McKnife, yes, I know, and from the control panel, when I click on Devices and printers, it takes me to the new settings page, I want the old settings, where I can see the printers listed.
Serialband, thanks, what's strange is that it doesn't show me my local installed printer in the devices and printers.
The printer is installed, as I can print to it.
So how did you find out what the command is, the long string UID, as I am wondering what others I can use or do that with?
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Found it on a blog a while ago in a search. There's tons of those UIDs out there. I wish I could find the default Microsoft documentation for all those. When they removed the control panel shortcut during that 1 feature update, someone found a command line to pop it back. It wasn't actually removed, just hidden.
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Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.