List of Commands to Launch Specific Settings Page Directly in Windows 10

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1. Can you list the Search app in the above Settings Page & Commands. Unable to find a way to remove this app in the GPE.
   Ivan

2. ^^ Search page shortcuts listed at the end of the list.

3. Thank You.

4. Thank you for this info. I’m sure you’ve been told how helpful all these commands (?) really are, but once more can’t hurt. They are very helpful. I had no clue any of these existed. Again, thanks.

5. Dear Sir,
   I cant access some home pages. I am using windows 10 since 2016. But sometimes cant open some pages in Google.
   This page can not displayed this is whan comes from Google on dispaly.
   Any advice?

   Kinds regards
   Ishwer

6. ^^ Please provide more details. Do you get the error message for a particular website? Does the error message always appear for that website?

7. I can’t even get my hp laptop to load. I have the windows insider program and I just get the BSoD, I don’t sign in, I can’t do the f11 key to even troubleshoot and recover and/or restart. I want to pull out my hair, this is so frustrating. Please help. Me.

8. ^^ What screen do you get? Is it welcome screen or boot screen? Please provide more details.

9. I am running Windows 10 Pro Version 1809 and I am not able to access specific setting pages with these commands, only the main settings page.

10. Put “start” in front of the command. For example, If you use “start ms-settings:display” it works.

11. Same problem Comand Prompt issue as Ishwer. Running the same Windows Version (1809) as he is. I added “start” to the beginning of the commands as suggested – start then space, (start ms-settings:display). Nothing. Even added double quotes at beginning and end of command to see if that would work. Nothing. What am I doing wrong?
    Thanks!
    Jim

12. For me all commands working absolutely fine in latest public version as well as Insider Preview builds.

13. Running ms-settings:privacy-activityhistory shows the Privacy setting screen for less than a second and stops/disappears. In fact, it does the same for ms-settings:privacy-microphone and most other listed commands. Is there a registry or policy settings that prevents these commands? Thanks

14. ^^ All commands working fine here. Did you try to launch the pages using Settings app? Do they open properly?

15. Unfortunately launching the privacy pages using Settings app produces the same effect/results…

16. ^^ So it seems there are some corrupted files/settings in your Windows 10 OS. I can suggest to use sfc /scannow command to repair them. Which Windows 10 version are you using?

17. sfc /scannow result: Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations.
    Running Win 10 Pro Version 1903. Previous version 1809 did not have this issue.

18. Dear @Les
    It is a known bug in v1903, i also faced this, but following solutions may work.
    1. Download Microsoft Safety Scanner Tool and perform “quick scan” to detect virus, because in some cases, this problem may be generated by virus, so use this portable tool, if any virus detected, then perform full scan once(quick scan may takes upto 1 hour and full scan may takes upto 4-5 hours).
    2. Open command prompt as administrator and use following commands one by one, and wait to complete process:

    dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth
    sfc /scannow

    Now it will solve your problem, after complete process restart your computer. During this process do not run another appication, even Explorer File Manager.

19. @Les
    As Gaurav suggested it might be a known bug or issue. Try the solution given by him.

20. Followed Gaurav suggestion [thanks] – all command completed successfully – unfortunately the problem was not resolved and remains.

21. @Les
    Did you tried search function in settings? Open settings, in search bar type “privacy” and select suggested option of privacy or related menus, it will directly open without any problem, if problem still happens, then disable some apps startup which uses high resource.
    This issue has fixed in November Update 2019.

22. Thanks for you suggestions Guarav – search bar type “privacy” did not help and the November Update 2019 made issue worse, not showing even the start menu…

23. This seems a bit c.zy. I cannot run these commands from a PowerShell console? Surely there must be a way? If I have to open a specific “Run” dialogue every time, that seems a bit weird. Does anyone know a way to open a PowerShell console and type these commands into them?

24. To open the new Windows Security, use “windowsdefender:” instead of “ms-settings:” and there are a few sub-pages but the format is a little different. “windowsdefender://threat/” opens the threat page, and “windowsdefender://account/” opens the account security page, I haven’t tested for the rest of them.

25. Thanks for this resource, VG!

    Does Microsoft publish a regularly-updated version of this _anywhere_? The shortcuts can be incredibly useful, but they seem to change periodically with new releases/builds, so an official resource would be really helpful.

    @Roy, regarding PowerShell:
    You can execute these commands from PowerShell by using the Start-Process command (or its alias, Start). E.g.:
    Start-Process ms-settings:display

    For those inteested in running from the command prompt, use the START command, e.g.
    start ms-settings:display

    Also as an interesting note, because these are shell commands, they can also be opened directly from the address bar in File Explorer. Just type/paste them and press enter.
    Since Explorer’s address bar remembers prior locations, for subsequent uses you can simply type “ms-” and the bar will suggest “ms-settings:” commands that you’ve used in the past.
    See this image for an example: 1drv.ms/u/s!AqK7f7HOlojNwPRpS4rYBUbiIHn3vw?e=oaPJ6s