New Vista Syntax For Opening Control Panel Items From The Command Line

In Windows Vista, there’s a new syntax for opening control panel items – you can use the /name switch to pass the friendly name to control.exe instead of the difficult syntax.

For instance, if you want to open the Power Options panel you could run the following command from either the command line or the start menu search box:

Here’s a table of all the names that should work, which you can use in shortcuts or batch files.

You should note that you can also create shortcuts to control panel items by just right-click dragging the link in Control Panel to the folder you want to create the shortcut in.