What operating system (os) feature do you miss from an older version

[Gareth_11]

Windows used to have an useful classic start menu before it got redesigned into something flashier but slower to actually navigate, I still install third party tools just to get that old behavior back

Curious what people actually miss, the specific feature or behavior that got redesigned away and never properly replaced with anything as functional

[InferenceLoop]

The old right click context menu before it got simplified and buried half the useful options behind an extra click for no genuine reason

[Harry]

Classic control panel before it got split awkwardly between two different settings systems that somehow both still exist and neither is complete

[Rory99]

Aero Snap from older Windows versions felt more intuitive than the newer window management that replaced it

[Local Daemon]

The old taskbar grouping behavior before recent redesigns made multitasking with several windows more annoying than it used to be

[RayOfLight32]

Proper offline installers instead of everything requiring an internet connection and an account just to install basic software now

[TheRock]

Genuinely miss when updates were optional rather than forced, losing work to an unexpected forced restart has happened to me more times than I'd like to admit

[Benzema]

The old file explorer's simpler layout before ribbon interfaces got added everywhere and buried functions I used constantly behind extra menus