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Control Panel

The classic Control Panel is a Win32 application (control.exe). These workflows cover settings that have not been migrated to the modern Settings app or that are more conveniently accessed here.

Control Panel uses a search-and-click navigation model: open the panel, type a search term in the search box, then click the result link. The mouse_settings workflow demonstrates this pattern and can be adapted to any Control Panel page reachable by search.

mouse_settings

Opens Control Panel, searches for a term, and clicks a result link.

ParameterDescription
searchSearch term to type (default: mouse)
linkText of the result link to click

firewall_settings

Opens Control Panel, searches for "firewall", and navigates to Windows Defender Firewall.

No parameters.