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How do I open a custom control panel programmatically, like custom.cpl? Specifically, how do I open a 64-bit cpl when running as 32-bit application?
Vista added support for canonical names so you don’t have to hard code dll filenames and tab indexs
Example: WinExec(‘%systemroot%\system32\control.exe /name Microsoft.WindowsUpdate’, SW_NORMAL);
(Names are always in english)
See MSDN for a list
XP/2000 supports ‘control.exe mouse’ and a few other keywords, see the same MSDN page for a list (You can probably find some undocumented ones by running strings on control.exe)