I came to dislike the control panel interface on Windows because it is disjunct from management console snapins and does a bad job at reconiling administrative/

I came to dislike the control panel interface on Windows because it is disjunct from management console snapins and does a bad job at reconiling administrative/power user access knobs with basic computer controls. The control panel does not adapt to the user level / user role (Administrator, plain user) well enough. You have to switch between control panel (including "modernized" network controls), advanced properties dialogs (interesting network settings, classic style), and msc snapins for diskmanagement, event viewing, task and device management in order to get things done. On top of that gpedit is not even included in the default compmgmt.msc. Oh and these days add powershell scripts on top. Oh and regedit. One more issue is that they kept "evolving" the design (classic, settings view, etc) without retiring previous interfaces. Now you have access to everything and you keep wondering how the controls and components all interact. Almost as catastrophic as explorer.exe and "shell" integrations, resulting in the most laggy explorer.exe yet.