How to make Desk.cpl from Windows 2000 run on Windows 8 and 10

[Floyd]

this is the discussion topic for
http://chorusofone.no-ip.org/computerstuff/win8desk2k.html

i'm not reposting all of it to here, that would be difficult, and i'm lazy.

[Clasurol]

this is the discussion topic for
http://chorusofone.no-ip.org/computerstuff/win8desk2k.html

i'm not reposting all of it to here, that would be difficult, and i'm lazy.

Thank you Floyd for all you've done in regards to getting these old programs up and running on Windows 8+, they've been a great asset to us over at WinClassic. Mad props. 

[Floyd]

Thanks you! also, Welcome! i doubt you'll be back tho lol.

i wish i had more spare time to do weird stuff like that more often

winclassic looks to have some interesting stuff going on i might have to come over there soon lol.

[Clasurol]

It's up to you, but I think a few over there would like that.

[jack980517]

Is there any way to make the Settings tab work as well? I really hate win10 moving everything to UWP...
Also, could desk.cpl from XP be made to work with the same steps? (Of course I'm not expecting XP themes to work.)

[Floyd]

i tried the windows xp version, it seems to require a lot of other dlls which in turn require even more in order to get it to work

the settings tab actually kinda works, just not correctly, i have no idea how you would fix it.