RightClick: Adding Control Panel Items in Vista

Thursday, August 30, 2007 by Island Dog | Discussion: Skinning

Now that people are starting to use RightClick on Vista, Snidely asked the question of how you place an entry in RightClick to directly access items like "Personalize" in Windows Vista. I gave the solution on IRC last night, but I wanted to share it with the rest of your here.

In the RightClick configuration window create a new shortcut. In the "target" box, enter the following:

control.exe /name Microsoft.Personalization

That should allow you to open "Personalize" directly. Some of the more "common" entries are:

Microsoft.Bluetooth
Microsoft.Fonts
Microsoft.Keyboard
Microsoft.Mouse
Microsoft.WindowsUpdate
Microsoft.WindowsDefender
Microsoft.SyncCenter

Follow the link below to view the full list.

Phoon
Reply #1 Thursday, August 30, 2007 8:09 AM
Great tip ID. I was looking for .cpl items instead. Needless to say, that venture was not a success..
ZubaZ
Reply #2 Thursday, August 30, 2007 10:13 AM
Great tip ID . .I was looking for this this morning after being sadly disapointed by the default "Properties . ." element.

 
TheDude23112
Reply #3 Friday, August 31, 2007 9:48 AM
Finally the answer is provided...
TheDude23112
Reply #4 Friday, August 31, 2007 9:54 AM
I couldn't get Windows Update to work, but this does:

%SystemRoot%\system32\wuapp.exe

geo121253
Reply #5 Wednesday, November 21, 2007 2:50 AM
  So easy and so usefull!! Thanks mate

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