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[dandersahn]

Does anyone know how to open the Vista "all control panel items" view via an AHK command? When "control.exe" is run through AHK, the vast majority of the control panel items are missing. It appears to be a UAC thing. Opening specific items works fine, but the all items view doesn't.

[BigVent]

Is this on the right track?

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/new-vista-syntax-for-opening-control-panel-items-from-the-command-line/
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[dandersahn]

Yes and no. I have actually employed a number of those commands individually, but what I'm trying to do is open the window displaying *all* of those control panel items. The bizarre thing is that if I specify any of those specific items, it opens just fine, but if I use "control" with no argument for a specific control panel, only non-Microsoft control panels are shown. It's definitely a UAC thing. If I open a command prompt and type "control", I have the same problem, but if I open a command prompt as admin and type "control" I see everything. Seems wrong to me that I can open individual panels w/o admin rights, but I can't list them. Hope that makes sense.

[dandersahn]

Finally figured it out. I used the "copy address" function in the address bar, then created a new shortcut and pasted the address into the location field. The new shortcut doesn't work, but the text that gets pasted into the address field contains the explorer special folder location. Using that I created the following command:

%windir%\explorer.exe ::{26EE0668-A00A-44D7-9371-BEB064C98683}\0

The interesting thing I found by chance is that the pasted address shows up differently when pasted into the new shortcut dialog than it does when pasted into a text editor.

[BigVent]

Very nice find! Thanks for sharing!
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