Ohh, you mean opening the actual GUI (window) from a cmd box running from within the Windows shell? I thought you meant accessing the information that would be IN the GUI, but from DOS as the shell.
This is explorer.exe interaction with a DLL (or two).
You will need a VB script or some WSH scripting to call the actions you are wanting, which can be called from a cmd line.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...31(VS.85).aspx
It might work with rundll.exe ; perhaps something like:
rundll32.exe shell32.dll,SHObjectProperties,filename