How to Open Control Panel Folders from the Command Prompt

• Microsoft Windows NT Workstation version 4.0
• Microsoft Windows NT Server version 4.0
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server

SUMMARY

This article describes how to start Control Panel applications and/or open folders at the MS-DOS command prompt.

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Use the following syntax to launch Control Panel applications and/or open folders:

Syntax	Description
Control printers	Displays the Printers folder
Control ports	Displays the System properties
Control fonts	Displays the font folder
Control mouse	Displays the Mouse properties
Control color	Opens the Display properties
Control international	Regional Settings
Control date/time	Date/time properties
Control keyboard	Keyboard properties

For example, to open the printers folder, type the following at the MS-DOS command prompt:

control printers

The %Systemroot%\System32 folder also contains .cpl files that allow users to launch Control Panel applications through Windows NT Explorer or the command prompt. For a list of the .cpl files and their descriptions, please see the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article:

ARTICLE-ID: Q173132
TITLE : Replacing Missing Control Panel Icons

Additional query words: printer command utility program cpl applets

Keywords : ntgeneral nthowto NTSrvWkst
Version : WINDOWS:2000; winnt:4.0
Platform : WINDOWS winnt
Issue type : kbinfo