The control panel in newer versions could still be that clean if Microsoft hadn&#x27;t tried to reinvent it three times (XP, Vista, 8).<p>Of course, the 9x control panel is, in a way, a reinvention of the 3.x control panel. It&#x27;s just a very clean one, because the 3.x control panel was a window full of icons, and the 9x control panel is an <i>Explorer</i> window full of icons.