Why can't the control panel be opened? Win10 control panel can not open the processing method

Some users said that the control panel in the Win10 computer could not be opened. The author communicated with the netizen and finally knew why the control panel could not be opened. The control panel could not be opened because the cpl file association was cancelled. Just fix the associated items on the control panel and you can reopen the control panel. For details, please read the following to understand how the Win10 control panel can't be opened.

Win10 control panel open processing method of:

1, Win + R to open the press operation, the transport path to enter the following:
% SystemRoot% \\ System32

2, search for *.cpl in the System32 folder, some small tools in the control panel will be displayed in the search results. Part of .cpl is added for third-party software, which adds its own entry in the control panel.

3, repair the damaged .cpl file.

Double-click each .cpl file separately, and if you can't open the control panel, these files are corrupted. If the third party .cpl is damaged, just delete it. If the system comes with .cpl corruption, use the following method to fix it:

Run CMD as an administrator, type:
sfc /scannow

Wait for the scan to complete. Then restart the system.

4, repair cpl file association.

Create a new txt text file, copy the following text into the txt file, and rename the file to cpl.reg (remove the original txt suffix) to save. Double-click cpl.reg to import the registry.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\.cpl] @="cplfile" "Generic"="system" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\.cpl\\PersistentHandler] @="{098f2470-bae0-11cd-b579- 08002b30bfeb}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\cplfile] @="Control Panel extension" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\cplfile\\shell] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\cplfile\\shell\\cplopen] @="Open with Control Panel" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\cplfile\\shell\\cplopen \\command] @="rundll32.exe shell32.dll, Control_RunDLL %1,%*" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\cplfile\\shell\ unas] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\cplfile\\shell\ unas\\command] @="rundll32.exe shell32 .dll, Control_RunDLLAsUser %1,%*"

Microsoft intends to migrate the functions of the control panel to the settings application, so some functions are unstable and the control panel cannot be opened. This is normal. The above method is to fix the cpl file. This problem can be solved, of course, this method is also applicable to Win7, Win8.1 systems.