Sometimes, you want to launch a Control Panel applet with elevated permissions. Normally, you would right-click the program you want, and select to run as an administrator. However, the control panel applets don’t give you that option, and so we need to go deeper.
As it turns out, the Control Panel applets are all located at C:\Windows\System32, and denoted by the .cpl file type. Simply right-click the one you want, and off you go. Alternatively, you can open an elevated command prompt, and run the command command applet.cpl, where applet.cpl is the name of the applet you want to run. What are those names, you ask? Here you go:
Control panel tool Command ----------------------------------------------------------------- Add/Remove Programs control appwiz.cpl Date/Time Properties control timedate.cpl Display Properties control desk.cpl Fonts Folder control fonts Internet Properties control inetcpl.cpl Keyboard Properties control main.cpl keyboard Mouse Properties control main.cpl Multimedia Properties control mmsys.cpl Network Properties control netcpl.cpl Password Properties control password.cpl Printers Folder control printers Regional Settings control intl.cpl Sound Properties control mmsys.cpl sounds System Properties control sysdm.cpl
Note that this list is in no way exhaustive, but it should do for most applications
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