I guess like you said you just need to know where things are.

For most users the features are tucked away in a nice place where they are out of the way because lets face it how often SHOULD you need to go into your network adapter properties to modify something?

However I do agree that there are times where it is needed to get into these places quickly

for network connections in Win7, I hit start -> type 'ncpa.cpl' and hit enter. I can do that faster than I can right click That might seem overly adminy to be launching a cpl from the start menu, but it accomplishes the same thing as the hoops you are jumping through, and like you said, often times you only need to go in there because of an admin type thing that needs to be done.

Same for the advanced computer properties. Start -> type 'sysdm.cpl' and hit enter.

Lets face it though, often times if you are doing any sort of admin type task, you might need to get into more than 1 of these applets to get your job done. So for the control panel as a whole, you can just hit start -> type 'control', hit enter, and the control panel comes up, with the cursor already in the search box, so from there you could type 'network' and get all the options for network stuff, including things like 'view network connections'

Call me crazy, but I just find that easier


As for the reflector issue, if you type it, and it is the only thing that shows up, if you hit up arrow once and enter, does that work??? I agree that could be a bug.. if there is only 1 solid result, it should highlight that.