Executing or Opening Control Panel Items

 Sometimes you have to open or access Control Panel Items via a script or you want to open it for a remote client and it is kind of hard to come up with a command line to address that issue. Microsoft has posted in their MSDN website (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/En-US/library/bb419052.aspx) information regarding how to do this.

Most importantly, if your application wishes to open an item in the Control Panel you use:

WinExec("c:windowssystem32control.exe MyCpl.cpl", SW_NORMAL);

And if you simply wish to open something like the Printers and Faxes folder, take a look at this (obtained as is from the website mentioned above):

Legacy Control Panel Commands

When you use the WinExec function, the system can recognize special
Control Panel commands. These commands predate Windows Vista.

For Windows 2000 and later systems:

 Alternatively you can try something like:

 ::{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}

That would open the Printers and Faxes if ran from the Start–>Run Menu. You can probably leverage this and use similar IDs for different things in Windows.