Control Panel items

[shornw]

This is gonna make me look really stupid.....How do you run an item from the Control Panel??

This is part of a software rollout, there are all sorts of different machines (Circa 1000) Screen resolutions, Software installs so i cant use Send("{LWIN}r") as there may be other items, and I cant Run.cpl) files...I've tried _RunDos to no effect

Also is there a way to create a new folder from within a script, I can only see FileCreateShortcut

Apologies if I'm being feeble but I cant seem to find any info on these items anywhere.

Thanks for looking

[MHz]

Run "control" to run the cpl file.

Run('control main.cpl')

[BigDod]

Also is there a way to create a new folder from within a script, I can only see FileCreateShortcut

DirCreate

[Briegel]

For run *.cpl try this:

Run("control.exe ncpa.cpl") ; or any other *.cpl

[shornw]

Tremendous....Thanks guys -all works

As a matter of interest where do you find this stuff out, I have to come here and ask questions and end up relying on people's good nature and also looking like an idiot. Is there somewhere I dont know about?

The DirCreate was just down to my not thinking broader, but I read through the Run command and cant find anything to do with 'control' anywhere

[MHz]

As a matter of interest where do you find this stuff out, I have to come here and ask questions and end up relying on people's good nature and also looking like an idiot. Is there somewhere I dont know about?

Ofcourse Google is a good method to find out things. Another concept is to go into folder options and look at filetypes. You know that you want to run a .cpl file so when you look at the advanced properties of .cpl, then you will see this as it's open command

rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL "%1",%*

That can be converted to

$cpl = 'main.cpl'
Run('rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL ' & $cpl)

and also control.exe exists for the task also.

[BigDaddyO]

Here is one that I use to launch the System object directly to the Remote Assistance tab. You can change the 6 to another number to automatically launch the window on a specified tab. They start at 0

Run("rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL sysdm.cpl,,6")

Mike

[herewasplato]

...As a matter of interest where do you find this stuff out, ...

http://vbnet.mvps.org/code/system/controlpnl3.htm is just one of many sites to keep handy.

[MHz]

A good Rundll reference list here.