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JamesStickland · 10th January 2007, 08:49

Hello, i am somewhat experienced with API calls from languages such as vb, vb.net

However, with rundll32, im wondering how the information here was obtained:

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Opening_...lay_Properties

Does microsoft have a repository of such commands? How can one go about figuring out the arguments to send to a dll for a specific result, such as opening the display properties? How was this figured out? Is there a visual studio tool for this? Could one open the display manager manually, then check a process viewer of some sort to find out what was called? Please help, this subject seems interesting and very useful for scripting.

Thanks!

{_trueparuex^} · 10th January 2007, 11:54

Try Process Explorer. With Process Explorer look in the properties of rundll32.exe and in Image tab look the command line field.

e.g. Safely remove hardware:
"C:\WINNT\system32\RUNDLL32.EXE" shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll

10th January 2007, 08:49	#1
JamesStickland Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 1	Rundll Hello, i am somewhat experienced with API calls from languages such as vb, vb.net However, with rundll32, im wondering how the information here was obtained: http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Opening_...lay_Properties Does microsoft have a repository of such commands? How can one go about figuring out the arguments to send to a dll for a specific result, such as opening the display properties? How was this figured out? Is there a visual studio tool for this? Could one open the display manager manually, then check a process viewer of some sort to find out what was called? Please help, this subject seems interesting and very useful for scripting. Thanks!

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