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How to get Deskbar to launch individual Control Panels Rick 05-22-2005
Posted by Rick on May 22, 2005, 11:51 pm
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see http://pcversusmac.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=709#709

a shortcut can be made to launch the Control Panel by using: @cp,=control.exe

i would like to be able to launch individual control panels straight away
via a shortcut method.

how can i get "C:\WINDOWS\system32\wscui.cpl" (the Windows Security Center)
to launch for instance?

for some reason, even though file associations are set for cpl files,
control.exe does not open the individual control panels. the file association
is set to use Windows Shell Common Dll and not control.exe however.

attempted methods that fail include:

@wsc,"C:\WINDOWS\system32\wscui.cpl"
(trys to do a search for "C:\WINDOWS\system32\wscui.cpl")

@wsc,C:\WINDOWS\system32\wscui.cpl
(nothing happens when i try to run wsc from the deskbar)

@wsc,=C:\WINDOWS\system32\wscui.cpl
(nothing happens)

@wsc,wscui.cpl
(does a search for wscui.cpl)

@wsc,=wscui.cpl
(nothing happens)

thanks for your help,
rick

ps- one idea i wonder about is whether there is a query like format for use
on the local hard drive. like $w is used to do queries online for something
like a stock quote, is there a query format that i can use to tell
control.exe to open a specific file?


Posted by Rick on May 23, 2005, 11:14 am
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pretty simple. hehe.

@wsc,=control.exe wscui.cpl

that opens windows security center.

"Rick" wrote:

> see http://pcversusmac.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=709#709
>
> a shortcut can be made to launch the Control Panel by using: @cp,=control.exe
>
> i would like to be able to launch individual control panels straight away
> via a shortcut method.
>
> how can i get "C:\WINDOWS\system32\wscui.cpl" (the Windows Security Center)
> to launch for instance?
>
> for some reason, even though file associations are set for cpl files,
> control.exe does not open the individual control panels. the file association
> is set to use Windows Shell Common Dll and not control.exe however.
>
> attempted methods that fail include:
>
> @wsc,"C:\WINDOWS\system32\wscui.cpl"
> (trys to do a search for "C:\WINDOWS\system32\wscui.cpl")
>
> @wsc,C:\WINDOWS\system32\wscui.cpl
> (nothing happens when i try to run wsc from the deskbar)
>
> @wsc,=C:\WINDOWS\system32\wscui.cpl
> (nothing happens)
>
> @wsc,wscui.cpl
> (does a search for wscui.cpl)
>
> @wsc,=wscui.cpl
> (nothing happens)
>
> thanks for your help,
> rick
>
> ps- one idea i wonder about is whether there is a query like format for use
> on the local hard drive. like $w is used to do queries online for something
> like a stock quote, is there a query format that i can use to tell
> control.exe to open a specific file?


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