if you right-click the speaker icon in the windows 10 taskbar and click "open sound settings", a windows 10-style panel called "Sound" opens. if you click the "Sound" option further down the context menu, it opens a windows xp-style panel. the "Sound" option is linked from Sound as "Sound Control Panel". the "Sound" option also has a link to "Manage sound devices" which is an internal panel that performs the same functions as the "Sound" option, except for managing the sound theme, which is found in that panel under the tab... "Sounds".
every so often I'll have people say to me that MacOS is harder to use than Windows and they list off a whole bunch of grievances and I tune out because I immediately start thinking about shit like this that I have to do at least twice a week for various reasons
to elaborate further on this, I think that windows 8, legitimately, might actually be the worst thing to ever happen to windows from a UX perspective. the very second there was any divide between the primary modes of interaction with the OS was the point of no return as far as getting anything even remotely advanced done. they add in this whole-ass tile interface, one of the most half-baked thing I've ever seen in a production OS, but properly realized "wait, what if people need to actually get shit done?"
so they keep the old desktop interface in there. alright, fine. but the tile interface was intended to be easy to use and upfront with relevant information, which meant it needed its own settings panel. okay. annoying. but okay. so naturally what they do is shove everything they can into that thing, sometimes taking them out of control panel entirely, sometimes having some overlap, and, in more advanced cases, sometimes having that settings panel bring you to the control panel because there was no clean way to divide those things
but it doesn't stop there! because they also decided to make it so that the desktop version also needed a simplified settings menu, which I actually do agree with! but sometimes that settings menu would actually bring you to the tiles settings menu in the case of certain things that were shared because they really wanted that whole situation to be a thing. they were banking huge on the idea that everyone would be using touchscreen devices like the surface because, like many tech companies, they did not understand the popularity of tablets and smartphones
so what we've ended up with, because of this absolutely bizarre half-commitment to a new interface paradigm, is three separate settings systems, all of which have some degree over overlap with one another, and there's basically no unifying design to the OS because every single aspect of having two desktop modes works against this at its core!
AND THE WORST PART IS THAT THIS IS LITERALLY ONLY ONE OF THE PROBLEMS THAT CAME WITH WINDOWS 8 THAT WE STILL DEAL WITH IN SOME CAPACITY TO THIS DAY
