WIN 10 COntrol Panel

[AccessShell]

Is it possible to access the WIN10 control panel and drill down using VB6?

[Eduardo-]

Is it possible to access the WIN10 control panel and drill down using VB6?

Drill down? Usually you need to define exactly what you need to achieve.

[AccessShell]

Drilling down is just like on a directory.
Control Panel/system....

I have no specific project in mind. I just to learn.

[fafalone]

You can list the applets and some go deeper.

It's a problem because 32bit, though.

Grab my ucShellBrowse control and see where you can go; give the 64bit tB version a try to see the difference

Some control panel things you can open directly like programs list, devices and printers, network connections... Again, see the ucShellBrowse thread


Edit: Here's how it looks... in both 32bit and 64bit you can get the category view; but then in VB6/32bit you can only see the 32bit applets (suffixed with "(32 bit)" when viewed in Explorer); the one is the busted OBDC one MS has left broken for years. But in tB 64bit you can see all the normal ones. Note one of them there says "TBCplApplet" and has the twinBASIC icon-- that's my Control Panel Applet Demo of making one in tB. You can make one in VB6 too, but it would have the "(32 bit)" suffix. They're just standard DLLs that export a CplApplet function and have a .cpl extension (or .dll and registered).

[Elroy]

You could shell to specific areas, using command line arguments. For instance, the following goes straight to the power options:

Option Explicit

Private Sub Form_Load()
    Shell "control.exe /name Microsoft.PowerOptions"
End Sub

Or, we can also go to areas in Settings. The following goes directly to the wallpaper area:

Option Explicit

Private Sub Form_Load()
    Shell "control.exe /name Microsoft.Personalization /page pageWallpaper"
End Sub

Knowing the correct command line arguments, we can go pretty much anywhere we want.