From Windows 8 on, Microsoft has been pushing more and more stuff to the App UI (sometimes called Immersive User Interface).
By default they are only easily accessible from the search feature from the “Start” button or “Search” pane in the task bar.
This is cumbersome or even problematic when you have to remember the correct terms over many localisations.
In the past you could run this from the command prompt or Windows+R keyboard shortcut “Run” pop-up:
control printers
This does not work however in either of the two:
settings printers
This works from the Windows+R keyboard shortcut “Run” pop-up:
ms-settings:printers
This works from the command prompt:
start ms-settings:printers
The difference is that with control , it will eventually find control.exe on the path, but ms-settings: is the scheme bit of an URI. The start command can handle this, the plain command-line cannot.
What in fact happens is that the URI scheme handler, will have a Windows Service (which runs under NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM) start "C:\Windows\ImmersiveControlPanel\SystemSettings.exe" -ServerName:microsoft.windows.immersivecontrolpanel under your current user.
List of Settings URIs
Next to a List of applications behind the various control panel links – via “Stop user access to control panel”, below is a list of Settings URIs.
The below list is from [WayBack] The list of Settings pages URIs (ms-settings) in Windows 10 , but misses ms-settings:printers.
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