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a setting affects system function and performance.

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What to do when your application has an "unmanageable" number of settings?

Remove settings. Period. Ideally, your application has zero settings. Users hate settings, and they take their time away from the core task they are performing. … The way you remove settings is to make design decisions. If your app has an unmanageable amount of settings, that means you are likely offloading design decisions to the user. …
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Why is the settings icon either associated with gears or a wrench + screwdriver

To get at some of the system settings, you had to unscrew the box and manually set hardware switches on the motherboard or a daughterboard, sometimes in concert with setting virtual switches in the Control …
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