Most of the current Control Panel designs and iconography settled down back in Windows Vista and Windows 7 in 2006 and 2009, which explains why so many of the panels still feature the rounded, glassy look that defines those versions of the operating system

Imagine a world where having the sleek visual appeal of a low income industrial warehouse is something to reminisce about. A world so hideously useless that covering the default screen in a vomit of applications icons like a target at a gun range seems normal.