Question about opening control panel in a dopus window

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Hello there.

In dopus 8/win vista I had a button that, when clicked, showed the content of control panel in the active dopus-window. When I upgraded to 9 it stopped working and instead opened it as a new window, like when clicking it on the start menu.

I just bought nr 10 and decided to try to get my good old button back but cant get it right. I use Windows 7 64bit now.

Is there a way to accomplish this?

Please help.
Thanks in advance.

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No, it's not possible to display Control panel in Dopus since Vista, only possible in XP.

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Out of interest, why do you want to open Control Panel inside Opus on a Win7 machine?

4

Ok then I know for sure. Thanks for the replies guys! (I must have had Win Xp back when it worked then :slight_smile:)

leo: It's just that I'm used to it and I use dopus for almost everything on the computer. I have many other quick links and stuff in a toolbar that open like that and just miss my old control panel button there hehe.

Back to configurating nr 10 til perfection!

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Fair enough :slight_smile:

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It's possible to emulate what you want to have:

  • Open the Control Panel and create symbolic Links to each item you want to have (right-click and Drag and Drop to e.g. your Desktop)
  • Put the Links into a folder, create a Button pointing to that Folder and you're done.
    It's pretty much the same as it was in XP except you can't have the Control Panel in the Folder Tree.
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WOW -- weirdest thing just happened; my win 7 machine would not open control panel or properties; I googled and found an OLD post in a forum from 2009 where DO explorer replacement was the problem. Sure enough, as soon as I disabled by CP and properties worked properly. I have NEVER had this problem in years on several machines; ANY idea on why it happened suddenly!?!?