using rundll32.exe to access control panel applet?

[Neil Chambers]

Hi all,

I don't know if this is possible but I'd like to access the functions
contained in the 'Mail' applet within the Control Panel.

Specifically I want to access the 'Profiles' list and then if the desired
profile (source) name is found Copy... it to another name (target) - set the
target as the default profile then Remove the source profile.

I'm not looking for someone to create the solution - examples are fine. I
just want to know if this can be done and if so where I should start looking
:-)

Cheers,
n

[Mattias Sjögren]

>I don't know if this is possible but I'd like to access the functions

>contained in the 'Mail' applet within the Control Panel.

Control Panel applets are for end users. While you can open them with
Rundll32, it's not the way to go if you want to perform actions that
users can do via the dialog.

Try to find the underlying API used by the applet and code against
that instead. In the case of the Mail applet I guess you should look
at MAPI.
Mattias

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