control panel applets

[Larry Waibel]

I've added the 'Power Meter Control Panel' and 'Control Panel Command Line
Support' components. But when I try to run 'powercfg.cpl' from the command
line it reports that 'the file does not have a program associated with it'.
If I use 'control powercfg.cpl' then it reports the same thing for
'rundll32.exe'. What else do I need to be able to run a control panel applet
from the command line?

 

[KM]

Larry,

Do you have the following components in your image?
Primitive: Powrprof
Primitive: Rundll32
Primitive: Shell32

You can try command like: "rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL powercfg.cpl" (that is what Control.exe ends up calling to)

Btw, you may want to consider using powercfg.exe ("Power Configuration Tool" component) tool instead since Shell32 is pretty heavy
dependency.

 

[Larry Waibel]

Is that 'Power Configuration Tool' an SP2 thing? In SP1 I don't see that and I found
powercfg.exe in the 'Power Meter Control Panel' component.

From: "KM" <konstmor@nospam_yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: control panel applets
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:19:05 -0700
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.embedded

Larry,

Do you have the following components in your image?
Primitive: Powrprof
Primitive: Rundll32
Primitive: Shell32

You can try command like: "rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL powercfg.cpl" (that

is what Control.exe ends up calling to)

Btw, you may want to consider using powercfg.exe ("Power Configuration Tool"

component) tool instead since Shell32 is pretty heavy

 

[KM]

Larry,

Yes, the 'Power Configuration Tool' in in SP2 database only.
But you can use powercfg.exe on SP1 without problems.

KM