[LexiMax]

I don't use them terribly often, but one thing that old control panel windows did was pack a lot of information into a small amount of space.

Device Manager has that nice tree setup allowing me to see problematic devices a lot quicker.

Drive management has that nice table of physical devices on the top and then partitions on the bottom.

The old-school network adapter page shows me every network device in a single window, real or virtual, and I can mess around with their settings a lot faster with right-click properties.

And of course the services manager allows me to make sure that certain services arent running, like Windows search indexing - I use voidtools Everything instead.

That said, those tend to be the exceptions and not the rules. I've actually been quite pleased with the progression of the settings window over the course of Windows 10 and 11. A special shout out to the new fonts page as it is light years better than what came before.

[qwertfisch]

Funny, I recently wanted to uninstall a bunch of fonts I tested for programming. Turns out, in the new font settings widget you cannot uninstall all fonts or even all styles of a font at once. I would have needed to select a font, then click "Uninstall" for the bold style, the semibold style, the medium style, the italic bold style etc.

Opening \Windows\Fonts instead gives you a nice view of all fonts, you Ctrl-select all you want, right click, uninstall, done.