How to quickly switch the universal icons on the desktop, My Documents, and so on in Windows Server 2012

How to quickly switch the universal icons on the desktop, My Documents, and so on in Windows Server 2012

As we all know, in the Windows Server 2012 Series Server version has introduced the modern modern interface as the default user interaction interface, simultaneously satisfies the visual uniformity, the new Edition Server Management program also has made the flat. So the traditional computer (my Computer), My Documents, these classic icons by default will not exist on the traditional classic desktop.

Why is there such an open question, Microsoft advises you to use the new modern mode, you also find the original things to do?

So the scene comes, if it's a template provider that needs to give the user a custom template (the user has this requirement), or if the user gets the only modern interface server to customize the icons needed on the classic desktop, it needs a simple and effective general approach. In addition, you simply rely on their own to find the interface of the switch, it is not found! Do not know what Microsoft is intended to use the mouse to find him, is not found!

Method One: Use the search function with Windows

The key word to search for is "computer", which is common in all languages.

Tap the keyboard directly below the modern interface and enter computer, which you can see under Setup (Settings) items

Figure 1Modern Interface Search keyword "Computer" can be found

Figure 2 Traditional Control Panel environment search keyword "Computer" can also be easily found

English keywords are as effective in Chinese environment

Figure 3 is as effective as English keywords in Chinese environment

Figure 4 is as effective under Windows 10 transformation

Method two: Using the command line and other non-search methods

This method is intended for "old driver" users and friends who prefer to use command line operations.

Using the Procexp tool, we can view the system command action for the Open program.

The Figure 5 system is called by the Rundll32 program to realize the opening of a Desk.cpl Control Panel program with parameters.

Obviously the above command line for the old driver is not appropriate, lengthy not to say, the key is not good memory.

Let's analyze the contents of the command line to "compress" it.

First we need to understand what the long string of "C:windowssystem32rundll32.exe" shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL desk.cpl,,0 represents.

The red font indicates the process initiated by the main program rundll32, and the purple Shell32.dll indicates that this is a need to invoke the icon to display the shell of the information, the Green control field indicates that this is a panel call, the blue desk.cpl is the real trigger of the entity,

And then we can use it so compressed.

For the need to use the command line directly to the Classic desktop icon switch to the "old driver" friend, you can directly in the operation or CMD black box inside the input desk.cpl,,0 can be achieved quickly open the Classic Desktop Icon Switch dialog box.

Extended

The MVP will need content to write the article, so in the extended section we'll discuss why Microsoft is designing the Control Panel open.

The earliest CPL program appears in Windows 95 (KB149698), satisfies a wide variety of Control Panel independent settings (which is an era of open), and also facilitates programmers to write programs when calling the Control Panel Settings window.

And with the progress of the Times, Microsoft's own transformation, the new modern interface was born, this looks like the "Windows" window weakening interface is actually the original cured window through the program and user-defined window combination, However, due to user habits, some classic desktop settings still need to use the control Panel to configure, (interrupt, in Windows 10 operating system, Control Panel is more "set" that

Instead of gears, powerful searches reduce the user's search for pointer pointing. Plus server operations users can still try to make the server function single, straightforward to solve the problem is a consistent goal. So Microsoft's approach is also a compromise--the desire to not completely turn off user-defined classic desktops, and to further guide users to efficient operating modes such as search.

As for why to write "desk.cpl,,0", the reason comes from the traditional window under the "Single Window multiple pages (multiple tags, multiple tabs)" Design ideas.

The representation method identifier such as So-and-so cpl,@m,n calls the page @m under So-and-so. Cpl, the first few label N on. Typically, a CPL program has only one main page @m, so Microsoft's "desk.cpl,,0" indicates--opens the No. 0 label on the main page under Desk.cpl. What the user sees is a desk.cpl program with only one label.

Curious I keep going down, if you open desk.cpl directly under Windows Server 2012 without any parameters, you will see the same resolution as the screen, (Interrupt, under Windows 10 is not the traditional desktop environment window, This also proves that Microsoft is weakening the traditional desktop resolution!!, and this traditional desktop is the originator of the control panel itself control.exe, after the Explorer.exe to take over.

Continue to use Sysinternals's Strings.exe program to further study Desk.cpl can find some of the important switch items:

@Themes

@Desktop

@ScreenSaver

@Appearance

@Settings

They distinguish the various pages mentioned in the @m, and are now split into separate individuals, Although the entrance is still desk.cpl but the final takeover process is no longer the control Panel program, here, further proof of Microsoft's determination to weaken the traditional desktop, think of the future through the search can be a function of the switch is also a pleasant thing, the real roads lead to Rome! The above switches are literally able to understand what they mean. Interested friends can follow desk.cpl on their own, play a game behind (note that there is a half-width comma).

Through the Strings.exe also found a project called desk.cpl,,1, this can also open the Classic Desktop Icon Switch window, this is why? Let's recall Windows XP, with this command we can pull up the desktop window, And the custom desktop will be able to complete the set of common icons on the XP desktop.

Figure 6 recalls the desk.cpl,,1 under Windows XP

Perhaps is the program developer's nostalgia, may also happen to encounter, may be adapts the old program compatibility and so on the reason. But in any case, let it pass in the past, to use new thinking to face the new changes, the new way to solve the problem.