[bombcar]

Yeah but Windows itself has two control panels for its own settings, no 3P installed at all.

Left over from the half-hearted touch Renaissance.

[wvenable]

In older Windows, the control panel was extendable by 3rd party applications and drivers. So it sticks around mostly for that and mostly because re-writing a UI for changing really esoteric IT-admin level settings is a waste of time.

[dboreham]

I think this has changed in 11.