Something every geek should know

[Martin Francom]

GOD-MODE in Windows 7

Although its name suggests perhaps even grander capabilities, Windows enthusiasts are excited over the discovery of a hidden "GodMode" feature that lets users access all of the operating system's control panels from within a single folder.

To enter "GodMode," one need only create a new folder and then rename the folder to the following:

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

Users are able to have a single place to do everything from changing the look of the mouse pointer to making a new hard-drive partition.

see  whole article at:

  http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-378247.html?tag=nl.e550

[Roger Garstang]

What exactly did this look like/do?  Tried on Vista since Win7 is just Vista with more eye candy and bug fixes...and it wasn't pretty.  For those wanting to try, don't put it on your desktop or you will need CTRL+Shift+Esc to open a cmd window and delete it...all it did for me was continually crash explorer.

[Roger Garstang]

Guess it would help if I read the warnings in the article that it crashes 64bit systems...still good advice not to put it on your desktop though.

[Martin Francom]

Roger,
    Worked well for me.  I just open Windows Explorer and created the directory on C:\ drive.   After directory was create a long list of well organized window uttilites were available.   I think it's rather snazzy.

[Roger Garstang]

Win 7 or Vista?  And, if Vista 32 or 64bit?  Video made it look cool like it was a neat version of TweakUI...wish it worked on 64bit.  One thing I hate about Vista+ is how hard it is for advanced users to customize stuff how they want it.  Still can't get all my folders to come up how I want.  On all my other OS I setup a folder with Detail view and specific columns I want and sizes.  Select to Apply to All Folders button, then turn off Remember Each Folder's View settings.  All folders then come up in that view I selected no matter what.  I have yet to get Vista to do this.  All it wants to do is look at the files and change it to the view it wants.  The page to change display properties is annoying.  And System Properties always has to go to that stupid page with the Experience number that I care nothing about first.  If they'd quit trying to copy Linux/Mac and just make something that works they'd have a much better OS.

[Martin Francom]

I am using Windows-7 32bit

Like God-Modes here an article about others:

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-379690.html?tag=nl.e539

If you liked TweekIU   you need to check out  TweekPowerPak  (it's free)

  http://www.tweaknow.com/index.php

[Roger Garstang]

Tried the first 5, none of them did anything...

[Martin Francom]

More on God-Mode:

   http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=1615&tag=nl.e539