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Windows 7 Control Panel In Classic Mode
What is the first thing you do when you open the control panel in Windows Vista? I always switch it to Classic View and most people I know do the same. Microsoft got it so right with the Classic View and I cannot understand whey they are trying to convince people to move away from it. This is what Classic View looks like in Vista.
So what did I do when I opened the Control Panel in Windows 7? Yup! I wanted to switch it to the Classic Mode. The way I achieved my objective is a little different than how it is done in Vista. In Windows 7 you have to click on the View by drop-down and choose large icons of small icons depending on your preference. And I’m back to my Classic Mode for the Control Panel. And life is once again good :)
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July 13th, 2009 at 2:41 am
I hope someday window modifiers find a way to make it look exactly like vistas. and I meen EXACTLY same shape and size of icons.
even with classic view in win 7 I way to used to vista/xps control panel classic view.
July 31st, 2009 at 9:46 am
thank you very much this was very helpful
July 31st, 2009 at 10:21 am
Asi,
I’m Happy to know that the post was helpful.
August 27th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
Like much in Windows 7, they have broken something not needing fixing, and made it irreversible.
What’s nice about the old classic view, is that it’s like a regular explorer view. Which means you can group the items by whatever you wanted (like, say, category perhaps?). So it was just splendid functionally, it was only Microsoft’s default behavior that was rubbish. And it still is, but now it’s either that tedious variant of categorization, or none at all.
What they seem to have done right with regard to the control panel though, is that they have trimmed down the amount of items. But that didn’t require a functional remake of it.
August 28th, 2009 at 11:19 am
I feel that they got the UI right for Control Panel in XP and since then with Vista and Win 7 they’ve been trying to to something creative with it. I don’t think it’s required. As you said “they have broken something not needing fixing”. I totally agree with that.
August 30th, 2009 at 9:11 am
+1 Accurate. Deepak has it completely right – the UI for XP was great. Unfortunately, the GUI people at MS need to find a reasons to justify their existence so they force this shit onto us.
November 12th, 2009 at 10:06 am
I’ve done this 4 times, and every time I exit out and later go back in, the view is back to the default. I don’t see any way to “Save Changes”, so what am I doing wrong? Is there a registry key I can modify to keep the Large Icon look?
December 2nd, 2009 at 8:40 pm
My biggest problem with the Windows 7 control panel is that it isn’t consistent as advertised. I’m always having to follow your instructions above and switch it to Classic view EVERY SINGLE FREAKING time I go into it. SO finally I got frustrated and just went through with the registry fix. I found instructions how to fix it here: http://www.groovypost.com/howto/geek-stuff/force-list-view-in-windows-7-vista-control-panel/
Corky take a look, I know exactly how you feel mate.
December 3rd, 2009 at 7:52 am
Thanks Baxter. I’m about to try the fix myself.
December 4th, 2009 at 5:43 am
I just bought a new computer with Windows 7 on it. I was able to set up Classic Look on my lower task bar, but am having 2 issues with the new Email look. When I get a new email I get the sound but the icon doesn’t show up in the lower task bar, just the lower bar on the Windows Mail page which can’t be seen if I have a web page open. Any way to fix this? It seems to be set up right. Also I hate the whole new look of the Windows Mail window, any way to get the Classic Look back? thanks……
June 26th, 2010 at 4:04 am
This tip is so useles :-)
The view style which you selected is not a Classic View. It a crap-column view. In classic view items are not displayed in columns.
Heh! That so funny! Microsoft displayed stuff in control panel in columns but we have to read it in rows. Imagine that you have to read the newspaper this way. Haha!
July 3rd, 2010 at 12:14 am
Microsoft is the enemy…..
They need to constantly make changes to justify update $$$
No built in choices–Can’t revert to true Classic View, example.
Windows 7 is slow to boot up…..has fewer features than Vista
A long list of screw ups, and we keep paying for updates….
July 8th, 2010 at 1:20 am
This is very interesting, but I’m wondering if someone has written a sort of hack utility to force the control panel into the old classic view like Windows Explorer? I’m blind and really liked being able to use the down arrow to move through the list without skipping items. the only way I’ve been able to work around this is to go into the start menu customization and have Control Panel show up as a menu and not as a link.
July 8th, 2010 at 10:24 am
Hi David,
I am not aware of any such hacks. However if someone reading this post can suggest one then I’ll be happy to post it here.