vista - "connect to a network"

donaghs

Does anyone know how to launch "the connect to a network" screen by a command prompt?

Just something I'm trying to tweak. I know there are various ways to do it in the windows GUI, e.g. right-clicking on the network icon in the System Tray, click on the "Connect To" icon on the Start menu, or going to Control Panel, Network and Sharing Center, and Connect to a Network.

The list of network connections can be launched by running this command: "ncpa.cpl". So I reckon there must also be some command to launch the "connect to a network" screen

Capt'n Midnight

it should be

control ncpa.cpl


http://commandwindows.com/runline.htm links to the next two, links are for XP so may work on Vista too


http://vlaurie.com/computers2/Articles/control.htm control applets


http://vlaurie.com/computers2/Articles/rundll32.htm rundll32 for other ones

donaghs

Got it finally. Click the Start and Copy into run shell:::{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} and hit Enter. Then its in there under networking stuff.