You shouldn't ask yourself this question. You go crazy! I ask myself the same question with Windows File Explorer under Windows 10. Five years and still clunky, outdated and no tabs in 30 years of Windows file management. For the latter, I can recommend Files (UWP) to you. One Developer did (the tabs!) what Microsoft was not able to do for 5 (or 30) years and more.

 

All this disorder has tempted me to at least bring some order to the settings app. After a few weeks of experimentation work (sense and nonsense of such an application) around the app and concept, I decided to continue this project.

In the first step, I have brought together the most important settings in clearly arranged categories. Navigating between the categories is now a lot easier, as the navigation bar in ControlUWP is always visible. For this reason alone, we always have to return to the main menu in the Windows 10 Settings apps, just to select another category. The same applies to us with the sub-categories.

The biggest drawback of the modern Settings app to me is the limitation to one opened window in total. You could open the Control Panel hundreds of times, but the Settings app only once. This is something that I cannot understand at all also from a program-technically point of view. It's a line of code to allow multiple instances of an app. With ControlUWP I redirect most of the settings pages to the modern version of the Settings app. Since I now have a second window of settings open with ControlUWP, I can also navigate a little faster in the Windows 10 Settings app.

These are just some of the advantages why i decided to continue the project. I will also completely recreate some pages if the project attracts more attention and I find the necessary time.

However, the first steps have been taken and the project can be tested in a preview version.

You can find more information and the download link on the official Github project page.