Shortcuts to Control Panel pages
Many windows are buried several levels deep in Vista??™s Control Panel, so it
can be a bit of a pain to make your way around the program. If you find
yourself returning to the same spot often, there are several ways to make
shortcuts and save yourself some time in the future.
The easiest way to make a shortcut is with drag-drop. If you??™re using the
Control Panel Home (category) view, drag any link onto the desktop to
make a shortcut, but don??™t be surprised if the shortcut doesn??™t take you as far
as you wanted to go. For instance, drag the Change desktop background link,
and you??™ll get a shortcut to the Appearance and Personalization page only.
You can get a little more control in the Classic View of Control Panel; just
drag an icon to the desktop to make a shortcut.
Figure 2-5. Use the path arrows in the address bar to quickly jump to a Control Panel page
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But if you want to get to a specific page or tab more directly, you can use
any of the available command-line alternatives to open Control Panel pages
and windows from shortcuts, the Start menu, or even from the Start ??? Run
dialog. For example, you can open the Advanced tab in the Advanced System
Properties window with this old-school syntax (around since the days of
Windows 3.x in the 1980s, if you can believe it):
control.exe sysdm.cpl ,3
Or, you can use this new standalone executable to accomplish the same
thing:
SystemPropertiesAdvanced.
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