JamesStickland
10th January 2007 09:49 UTC

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!

{_trueparuex^}
10th January 2007 12:54 UTC

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