How to Open Control Panel Folders from the Command Prompt

SUMMARY

This article describes how to start Control Panel applications and open folders at the MS-DOS command prompt.

MORE INFORMATION

Use the following syntax to launch Control Panel applications and open folders:

Syntax	Description
Control desktop	Launches the Desktop Control Panel subprogram
Control color	Launches the Desktop Control Panel subprogram, with the Appearance tab preselected
Control date/time	Launches the Date/Time Control Panel program
Control international	Launches the Regional Settings Control Panel subprogram
Control mouse	Launches the Mouse Control Panel subprogram
Control keyboard	Launches the Keyboard Control Panel subprogram
Control printers	Displays the Printers folder
Control fonts	Displays the Fonts folder
Control input.dll	Launches the Text Services and Input Language settings Control Panel subprogram

For Windows 2000:

Syntax	Description
Control folders	Launches the Folder Settings Control Panel subprogram
Control netware	Launches the Novell NetWare Control Panel subprogram (if installed)
Control telephony	Launches the Phone and Modem Options Control Panel subprogram
Control admintools	Displays the Administrative Tools folder
Control schedtasks	Displays the Scheduled Tasks folder
Control netconnections	Displays the Network and Dial-up Connections folder
Control infrared	Launches the Infrared Control Panel subprogram (if installed)
Control userpasswords	Launches the Users and Passwords Control Panel subprogram

For example, to open the printers folder, type the following at the MS-DOS command prompt:

control printers

The %Systemroot%\System32 folder also contains .cpl files that allow users to launch Control Panel applications through Windows Explorer or the command prompt. For a list of the .cpl files and their descriptions, please see the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article:

Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style

If while installing Windows 10 on your computer, you receive Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style message, maybe something here will be able to help you. When you receive this message, you are unable to select any drive and proceed further with the setup, by clicking Next.

Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style

MBR and GPT are two formats of a hard disk. MBR is the abbreviation of master bootable record, whereas GPT is an abbreviation of GUID partition table. In order to boot Windows from GPT, the motherboard of the device should support UEFI, else, it is better to use MBR to boot from.
When installing Windows on UEFI-based PCs using Windows Setup, your hard drive partition style must be set up to support either UEFI mode or legacy BIOS-compatibility mode. You receive such an error because your PC is booted in UEFI mode, but your hard drive is not configured for UEFI mode. You’ve got a few options:

1. Reboot the PC in legacy BIOS-compatibility mode. This option lets you keep the existing partition style. For more information on this, read this TechNet article titled Boot to UEFI Mode or Legacy BIOS mode.
2. Wipe the drive and reformat the drive so as to be able to use the PC’s firmware features.

Wipe a drive and convert to MBR

Open an elevated command prompt window and type diskpart and hit Enter.
Next, type list disk and hit Enter.
The list of disks will be displayed. Select the disk and type the following command and hit Enter, replacing x with the number of your disk you want to clean. The disk will have GPT marked against it.

select disk x

The disk will be selected

Next type clean and hit Enter. Do NOTE that, once you enter this command, all data on the disk will be lost, so if you need to, take backups of your data.
You will now have to convert GPT to MBR using Diskpart. Moreover, if you cannot afford to clean the entire disk or wipe your data, you may want to make use of the following third-party software that let you convert GPT to MBR easily.

Aomei Partition Assistant will let you convert GPT to MBR for a particular drive only. You can use it to process the drive on which you plan to install Windows 10, and which is giving you the trouble.
This post shows how to convert MBR to GPT using Diskpart as well as Partition Assistant. The process to convert GPT to MBR is the same as given in this post, except that you have to make the necessary changes, like use convert MBR command for diskpart, or select the Convert to MBR/GPT option in Partition Assistant.
If you receive message Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is not of the GPT partition style, then this TechNet post titled Windows Setup Installing using the MBR or GPT partition style will help you. You will have to convert MBR to GPT.