Devices and Printers - What happened?? Where's Camera Settings??


CartmansPiehole

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OK this might be more of a personal grievance or maybe someone can help me out.

I'd like to know what the heck happened to my Devices and Printers option from the Control Panel. I click it, and it goes to Settings, instead of the familiar nice layout that we'd seen since probably Windows 95. Now it's as if it's forcing me to look at a view from the Settings Menu called Bluetooth & Devices > Devices. I'm literally just trying to change my Default Camera on my computer and I'm now completely confused on how to do it. I actually want my default Camera to be an app (ManyCam).

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
 

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Just a little trick, open device manager and left click a blank space then click on the action tab and select Devices and Printers.

Creating a shortcut on the desktop still works.

 

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    Win 11 Home & Pro
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    Laptop
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    ASUS Vivobook
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    AMD Ryzen™ 7 7730U
    Motherboard
    M1605YA
    Memory
    15.0GB Dual-Channel DDR4 @ 1596MHz (22-22-22-52)
    Graphics Card(s)
    512MB ATI AMD Radeon Graphics (ASUStek Computer Inc)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Generic PnP Monitor (1920x1200@60Hz) - P1 PLUS (1920x1080@59Hz)
    Screen Resolution
    1920 X 1200
    Hard Drives
    953GB Western Digital WD
    PSU
    45 Watts
    Mouse
    Lenovo Bluetooth.
    Internet Speed
    500 Mbps
    Browser
    Edge
    Antivirus
    Defender
  • Operating System
    Windows 11
    Computer type
    Laptop
    Manufacturer/Model
    ACER NITRO
    CPU
    AMD Ryzen 7 5800H / 3.2 GHz
    Motherboard
    CZ Scala_CAS (FP6)
    Memory
    32 GB DDR4 SDRAM 3200 MHz
    Graphics card(s)
    NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 6 GB GDDR6 SDRAM
    Sound Card
    Realtek Audio. NVIDIA High Definition Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    15.6" LED backlight 1920 x 1080 (Full HD) 144 Hz
    Screen Resolution
    1920 x 1080 (Full HD)
    Hard Drives
    Samsung 970 Evo Plus 2TB NVMe M.2
    PSU
    180 Watt, 19.5 V
    Mouse
    Lenovo Bluetooth
    Internet Speed
    500 Mbps
    Browser
    Edge
    Antivirus
    Defender
Now it's as if it's forcing me to look at a view from the Settings Menu called Bluetooth & Devices > Devices
Yes, I see the same behaviour.

The attached shortcut [copied from a Windows 10 computer] still works in Windows 11 to get you to the old Control panel, Devices & printers dialog that you want.


All the best,
Denis
 

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    Windows 11 Home x64 Version 23H2 Build 22631.3447

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