Today morning, I was working on Surface 3 and checking whether the old CPL shortcut commands are still working with the latest build of Windows 10. Windows Key Shortcut A to Z Keyboard Shortcuts in Windows 10. Windows Shortcut RUN Commands Details.
Introduction
I’ve 2 posts related to shortcut and run commands for Windows 8.1 and other operating systems Post1 and Post2. The next question in my mind was “How to find out and launch new Settings application pages from the RUN menu on Windows 10 machine“. Interesting, isn’t it? All the following commands can be run from the RUN menu (Windows Key + R).
How to launch the home page of the Settings application from Windows 10 : ms-settings:
Privacy and Ease of Access setting pages run commands are very helpful. I’ve explained Privacy once at the bottom of the post. To launch Ease of Access closed capturing setting pages, we need to RUN the following command from RUN command 🙂 – ms-settings:easeofaccess-closedcaptioning
How to launch the Windows update configuration page of the Settings menu from Windows 10 : ms-settings:windowsupdate
How to launch the DISPLAY configuration page of the Settings menu from Windows 10 : ms-settings:display or ms-settings:screenrotation
How to launch the Notification configuration page of the Settings menu from Windows 10 : ms-settings:notifications
How to launch the Storage configuration page of the Settings menu from Windows 10 : ms-settings:storagesense
How to launch the Offline Maps configuration page of the Settings menu from Windows 10 : ms-settings:maps
How to launch the Bluetooth configuration page of Settings menu from Windows 10 : ms-settings-bluetooth: or ms-settings:bluetooth
How to launch the CONNECTED DEVICES configuration page and Device Manager direct link of Settings menu from Windows 10 : ms-settings:connecteddevices
How to launch the Mouse & Touchpad configuration page of Settings menu from Windows 10 : ms-settings:mousetouchpad
How to launch the NETWORK PROXY configuration page of Settings menu from Windows 10 : ms-settings:network-proxy
How to launch the Network and Internet configuration page of Settings menu from Windows 10 : ms-settings:network-internet
How to launch the LOCK SCREEN configuration page of Settings menu from Windows 10 : ms-settings:lockscreen
How to launch the Personalization configuration page of Settings menu from Windows 10 : ms-settings:personalization
How to launch the eMail accounts configuration page of Settings menu from Windows 10 : ms-settings:emailandaccounts
How to launch the Workplace configuration page of the Settings menu from Windows 10 : ms-settings:workplace
How to launch the Date and Time configuration page of Settings menu from Windows 10 : ms-settings:dateandtime
How to launch the Region & language configuration page of Settings menu from Windows 10 : ms-settings:regionlanguage
How to launch the PRIVACY configuration page of the Settings menu from Windows 10 : ms-settings:privacy
When you’ve launched different configuration pages which are under PRIVACY then you just need to specify the configuration name in the command as mentioned below.
Calendar –> ms-settings:privacy-calendar
Contacts –> ms-settings:privacy-contacts
Feedback & diagnostics –> ms-settings:privacy-feedback
Location –> ms-settings:privacy-location
Messaging –> ms-settings:privacy-messaging
Microphone –> ms-settings:privacy-microphone
Other –> ms-settings:privacy-customdevices
Radio –> ms-settings:privacy-radios
Speech –> ms-settings:privacy-speechtyping
Webcam –> ms-settings:privacy-webcam
Other RUN Commands
High Contrast –> ms-settings:easeofaccess-highcontrast
Magnifier –> ms-settings:easeofaccess-magnifier
Narrator –> ms-settings:easeofaccess-narrator
Keyboard –> ms-settings:easeofaccess-keyboard
Mouse –> ms-settings:easeofaccess-mouse
Other Options (Ease of Access) –> ms-settings:easeofaccess-otheroptions
Windows 10 Sign in Options !! – ms–settings:signinoptions
Author
Anoop is Microsoft MVP! He is a Solution Architect in enterprise client management with more than 20 years of experience (calculation done in 2021) in IT. He is a blogger, Speaker, and Local User Group HTMD Community leader. His main focus is on Device Management technologies like SCCM 2012, Current Branch, and Intune. E writes about ConfigMgr, Windows 11, Windows 10, Azure AD, Microsoft Intune, Windows 365, AVD, etc…
Hey! Thanks for this. Can you also share how to change the storage sense settings using command prompt on Win 10?
Thank You
I prefer run commands over other ways as it seems faster to me. Here are some run commands which I use daily for opening various windows applications .
On screen Keyboard – osk
Calculator – calc
WordPad – write
Windows Media Player – wmplayer
Windows Fax and Scan – wfs
Snipping Tools – snippingtool
Paint – mspaint
Notepad – notepad
Task manager – taskmgrt/
Sticky Notes – stikyno