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July 22, 2002 03:22 PM

Control Panel Applet Shortcuts

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Michael Otey
Windows IT Pro
InstantDoc ID #25653
Streamline access to essential administrative tasks
In Top Ten, "Rundll32 Shortcuts," July 2002, InstantDoc ID 25339, you learned how to directly run several Windows configuration wizards from the command line. Now, to help you further streamline your administrative efforts, I show you how to build shortcuts to 10 of the most commonly used Control Panel applets. Simply enter the commands listed for each applet, and add the shortcuts to your Start menu, a desktop icon, or a folder to create custom control panels for your users. I tested these shortcuts in Windows 2000, but they also work in Windows XP (most of them will also work in Windows NT 4.0).

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Nice one.

Jagan Mohan6/3/2007 5:17:12 AM

Check out: http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis/archive/2004/07/07/175488.aspx

Basically run an Internet Explorer with admin privileges by right clicking on a shortcut and selecting RunAs.

With privileged IE type "Control Panel" in to address bar and you're off.

Anonymous User 4/6/2005 7:39:25 AM

control printers - This command isn't working for me on XP Pro SP2.

According to MS "Some items, such as the Printers folder and desktop items, are opened indirectly and cannot be started with the runas command."

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/using/productdoc/en/default.asp?url=/windowsxp/home/using/productdoc/en/runas.asp

Anonymous User 1/11/2005 3:23:25 PM

On a workstation which is part of a workgroup, the command:

runas /user:Guess-who "control appwiz.cpl"

works quite nicely where 'Guess-who' is a local administrator. The tricks seem to be (1) quotes around the complete control command and (2) leaving out the local machine prefix, providing only the administrative user name.

Anonymous User 11/15/2004 10:31:40 AM

Is there anyway to tell the mmsys.cpl to change the current sound scheme from the command line, (something like mmsys.cpl ,sound_scheme=2) so that the sysems sound scheme wil change without the .cpl ever being seen. In the same trend, changing the default sound device in something like mmsys.cpl ,2 ,default_sound_device=2 or something like it. I don't even know if the mmsys.cpl supports these kind of commandline parameters. Can anyone help?
TIA

Peter4/19/2004 4:35:10 AM

If you want to start up with a particular tab visible, append ,,2 (for example) to get the second tab. So, control sysdm.cpl,,2 gets the hardware tab.

Michael McKechnie 4/7/2004 5:10:55 AM

Helpful for these shortcuts.

wom 3/4/2004 12:54:53 AM

I'm having the same issue as Mike. Does anyone know why control.exe doesn't like running under alternate credentials?

kenneth9/26/2003 10:22:45 AM

These don't seem to work correctly if you want to run these using the 'runas' command as an administrator on a workstation that has a domain user account logged into the workstation. Any ideas why? I can run any admin. tool that a domain user doesn't have access to using "runas".

Mike1/30/2003 9:42:45 AM

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