Windows 7 God Mode

mtroxmtrox Minnesota
edited January 2010 in Science & Tech
Anyone played with this yet? Just make a new folder on your desktop, name it "GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}". You don't have to do anything else, I've played with it a little bit.

All of your Win 7 settings are now in that folder instead of scattered around Control Panel, Registry, etc. It's a bit like the old PowerToys we had with XP...but with more. Very slick.

Comments

  • AlexDeGruvenAlexDeGruven Wut? Meechigan Icrontian
    edited January 2010
    It's a pretty basic concept (just exposes all Control Panel options in an easy to navigate list), and neat to look at, but that's about it, really.

    It does make it a lot easier to find specific Control Panel functions without having to figure out which higher-level category the function belongs to.

    That being said, though, 99% of those can be reached by Start + typing.
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited January 2010
    folder can be named anything, and I don't see anything in there that isn't in the control panel. I tend to just search in control panel anyways.
  • mas0nmas0n howdy Icrontian
    edited January 2010
    It's kind of nice on a fresh install to have all the settings in one place, but after that it's still easier for me to bring up individual settings through search as I think of them. I still keep it pinned to Windows Explorer on the taskbar though.
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited January 2010
    It's not "God Mode," it's not new, and it IS an example of how something trivial, gussied up with a stupid name, can make its way around the internet in record time.

    It just directly references a GUID. It's been there for years, through lots of variants of Windows.
  • mtroxmtrox Minnesota
    edited January 2010
    OK. Sorry I brought it up Snark.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited January 2010
    Snarkasm wrote:
    It's not "God Mode," it's not new, and it IS an example of how something trivial, gussied up with a stupid name, can make its way around the internet in record time.

    It just directly references a GUID. It's been there for years, through lots of variants of Windows.

    Which, of course, means that <i>everyone</i> already knows about it.
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited January 2010
    It's not a thing to do with you, mtrox. I get a little more annoyed every time I hear it called GodMode, that's all. I apologize.

    My annoyance isn't about spreading the trick - it's about calling it GodMode and pretending it's MAGIC instead of telling people what it's actually doing. Everybody around the internet is just parroting it (and I mean sites and articles, not people), and the vast majority of them just call it GodMode, accept that that's what it is and that's the only way it works, and have no ambition to figure out why. One of the better articles said she didn't know how it worked, but she called Microsoft to ask how this "exploit" got into the system and how long it had been there.

    Super cool trick. God Mode just rankles me. Apologies again.
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