There are two ways to open a Control Panel item: The user can open Control Panel and then open an item by clicking or double-clicking the item's icon. The user or an application can start a Control Panel item by executing it directly from the command line prompt. An application can open the Control Panel programmatically by using the WinExec function. WinExec("c:\windows\system32\control.exe", SW_
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