Calling Control Panel applets from shell

A list of command line options for calling control panel apps. Particular pain points – adding/removing programs and Windows components takes too many mouse clicks, and so does getting into a network adapter’s TCP/IP properties.

You can call the Add/Remove Programs window by typing appwiz.cpl, and to get into Add/Remove Programs | Windows Components, type: rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL appwiz.cpl,,2

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Bharat Suneja

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