To run a Control Panel tool in Windows, type the appropriate command in the Open box or at a command prompt.
| Control panel tool | Command |
| Accessibility Options | control access.cpl |
| Add New Hardware | control sysdm.cpl add new hardware |
| Add/Remove Programs | control appwiz.cpl |
| Date/Time Properties | control timedate.cpl |
| Display Properties | control desk.cpl |
| FindFast | control findfast.cpl |
| Fonts Folder | control fonts |
| Internet Properties | control inetcpl.cpl |
| Joystick Properties | control joy.cpl |
| Keyboard Properties | control main.cpl keyboard |
| Microsoft Exchange | control mlcfg32.cpl |
| (or Windows Messaging) | |
| Microsoft Mail Post Office | control wgpocpl.cpl |
| Modem Properties | control modem.cpl |
| Mouse Properties | control main.cpl |
| Multimedia Properties | control mmsys.cpl |
| Network Properties | control netcpl.cpl |
| NOTE: In Windows NT 4.0, Network | |
| properties is Ncpa.cpl, not Netcpl.cpl | |
| Password Properties | control password.cpl |
| PC Card | control main.cpl pc card (PCMCIA) |
| Power Management (Windows 95) | control main.cpl power |
| Power Management (Windows 98) | control powercfg.cpl |
| Printers Folder | control printers |
| Regional Settings | control intl.cpl |
| Scanners and Cameras | control sticpl.cpl |
| Sound Properties | control mmsys.cpl sounds |
| System Properties | control sysdm.cpl |
NOTE: The Scanners and Cameras applet (sticpl.cpl) cannot be run in Windows Millennium. It has been replaced by the Scanners and Cameras Folder, which is simila
r in function to folders like Printers and Dial-up Networking.
Windows substitutes the name of the tool you want to run for %1%. For example:
“rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL appwiz.cpl”.
To run the Users tool in Control Panel, type control Ncpa.cpl users, and then press ENTER.
To run the Users tool for Windows 95/98/Me, type “control inetcpl.cpl users” (without the quotation marks) and then press ENTER.
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