Open Devices and printers window in batch?

Question

How do I open the Devices and printers tab in the control panel with batch or from the command prompt?

Answer 1

Take a look at the CLSID Key (GUID) listing.

With shell, you can execute code to open the control panel to the desired location.

explorer shell:::{CLSID key number below}

In this case, your code would be:

explorer shell:::{A8A91A66-3A7D-4424-8D24-04E180695C7A}

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Alternatively:

Open Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound, left click and drag Devices and Printers to the desktop, this will create a new shortcut to that location.

With the shortcut, you can run it within a command prompt or a shell alternative.

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Both methods do the exact thing, opening the lnk in notepad reveals the location of:

{ 2 6 E E 0 6 6 8 - A 0 0 A - 4 4 D 7 - 9 3 7 1 - B E B 0 6 4 C 9 8 6 8 3 } \ 2 \ : : { A 8 A 9 1 A 6 6 - 3 A 7 D - 4 4 2 4 - 8 D 2 4 - 0 4 E 1 8 0 6 9 5 C 7 A }