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Access to 32 bit Control Panel icons in Vista 64 is awkward

Submitted by uKER on November 2, 2008 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Usability

In Vista 64, to access 32 bit Control Panel icons, you have to enter a special icon named 'View 32-bit icons'.
This is really counter-intuitive since if you don't know this behaviour beforehand, you will enter the Control Panel and expect icons to be there, and you will not be expecting them to be inside a second icon.

32 bit icons should be displayed alongside 64 bit ones, with some sort of visual distinction, such as "(32 bit)" added to its icon label, or an icon overlay.

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Discussion (4 comments)

Ensign Joe wrote on November 2, 2008, 8:10pm

+1
Or they should be placed at the end of the list or greyed out (semi-transparent or in grayscale)

anthonettex wrote on November 4, 2008, 11:40am

it is quite annoying. they should have a category which the control applets are put under the banner '32 bit', or at least tagged. nothing worse than having options buried within the menu

nitrous9200 wrote on November 9, 2008, 5:33am

Hopefully 7 will be more 64-bit friendly and do away with this 32-bit differentiation - is it that important to know?

Josh the Nerd wrote on November 22, 2008, 8:05am

+1

but I presume it has something to do with 64-bit programs not being unable to use 32-bit libraries

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