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Names of the Control Panel Programs
Name: Sandor (by prdsknoll) Date: January 16, 2006 at 17:32:05 Pacific OS: Win98SE CPU/Ram: Pentium II - 400 / 192 MB
Comment:
Is there a place I can go to find the names of the Control Panel programs, so I can enter them or create shortcuts for them without actually entering the Control Panel. I am particularly interested in the "Add or Remove Programs" option for starters.
Name: street1 Date: January 16, 2006 at 17:41:40 Pacific
Reply:
Are you talking about going to control panel,right clicking on the item you want dragging it to the desktop and clicking create shortcut here?
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Response Number 2
Name: ntengineer Date: January 16, 2006 at 17:42:35 Pacific
Reply:
Control panel programs are *.cpl programs typically stored in c:\windows\system32. The one for Add/Remove programs is called appwiz.cpl.
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Response Number 3
Name: Derek Date: January 16, 2006 at 18:13:51 Pacific
Reply:
If you are wanting to create the shortcuts themselves without opening the Control Panel it makes me wonder just why you want to do this unless someone has locked you out of there.
If you want to go straight to the Applets inside them it is a tad more tricky but there is some information on MS website from what I remember. I have some for "Internet Options".
DerekW
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Response Number 4
Name: Sandor (by prdsknoll) Date: January 16, 2006 at 19:14:10 Pacific
Reply:
ntengineer,
Thanks for your help. I found appwiz.cpl in the c:\windows\system folder.
You saved me BIG TIME. I was getting a program error (illegal operation pointing to Kernel32) in Explorer anytime I attempted to open Control Panel.
I have removed the errant program and all is perfect now.
Thanks again. Sandor
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Response Number 5
Name: gdivens51 Date: January 16, 2006 at 19:15:03 Pacific
Summary: mmsys.cpl is the name of the control panel icon for Multimedia - it may be corrupt and giving you that error. You can extract a new copy of the file from your Windows 98 CD or cab files if they are in...
Summary: Something else to try... See if all or none of the control panel applets work independently. Start>Find>Files or Folders, type in *.cpl and click Find Now. Open and close each applet. If they all wor...
Summary: Don't know about the registry itself, but you should be able to use POLEDIT.EXE to disable many of the control panel features. It's on your 95 or 98 CD somewhere. Handy if you want to stop the kids ...
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