Any happy fun command to open this dialog (.cpl or.msc) from the run dialog? This only works if user is granted permissions to network and sharing center My institution blocks this with global policies for standard users Giovanni's method works, even when not given permissions. Learn how to open network connections profiles as an administrator on windows using ncpa.cpl command or shortcuts. The other answers are correct, right click on desktop to bring up options menu, select new and then select shortcut, then write ncpa.cpl
Though this can be easily expanded to create links to other control panel pages as well Just replacet ncpa.cpl with the.cpl you want to create a shortcut for when creating shortcuts for other.cpl's Control panel pages are saved as.cpl files in %windir. Control ncpa.cpl or control netconnections control panel items are opened by running control.exe with a cpl name as argument. How to open network connections window programmatically using c# in win7, xp?? Is it possible to create a desktop shortcut for change adapter settings in windows 7
There is no way to open up that specific property window directly There's only a shortcut to the generic interfaces screen, being ncpa.cpl You can however use netsh from cmd to directly set or view the properties For instance, if you want to set the ip address of your local area connection (default name for the primary network interface) to 192.168.0.5, with a subnet of 255.255.255.0. On its sidebar, there is an option to 'change advanced settings' (the screenshot is from a system wlan wizard, not mine), which opens adapter properties Same thing does ncpa.cpl on windows vista and newer when 'properties' are clicked in the menu appearing on clicking rmb on the network adapter
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