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Control Panel - 'Devices and Printers' link
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scentse Posts: 27
15/10/2023
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Sometime ago, Microsoft changed the linkage for the Control Panel's 'Devices and Printers' page to redirect into the "modern" settings page.
There presently remains a way to get back to the correct location.
The correct link is:
explorer shell:::{A8A91A66-3A7D-4424-8D24-04E180695C7A}
This link appears to backdate to Win7.
As .NET 8's earliest target is Win10, I would think it's safe to proceed with updating that link.
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On second thought, several functions in the legacy "Devices and Printers" page appear to be broken. Perhaps not worth changing.
The schizophrenic nature of the settings/control panel is as absurd now as it was when Win 8 released in 2012.
edited by scentse on 15/10/2023
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Gianluca Administrator Posts: 1274
18/10/2023
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If you execute the item Control Panel - Devices and Printers, SyMenu opens the new modern setting page and not the old one for a simple reason: I don't use the GUID call but I instance it by name and MS defines the target for me accordingly with the OS.
To be clear the calling to Device and Printers is this one:
C:\Windows\system32\control.exe /name Microsoft.DevicesAndPrinters
I should not offer a way to go to the old page for the reasons you pointed out but also because it's very easy to create the item by himself:
- Item type: Program
- Path: explorer.exe
- Program argument: shell:::{A8A91A66-3A7D-4424-8D24-04E180695C7A}
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