"God Mode" in Windows 7

[Stan Brown]

While searching for answers to the "Desktop Icons folder" problem I
just posted, I ran across an interesting article at Cnet called
"Understanding Windows 7's 'GodMode'".

You create a folder with a particular name, and it will automatically
be populated with links to just about every kind of customization or
setting you can do, in one list under a couple of dozen categories.
It's pretty cool. I don't think there's anything there that we
couldn't get through other means, but having it all in one list is
pretty impressive.

Create a new folder and call it
GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
The name changes to GodMode and the icon looks Control-Panelish. Open
the folder and you'll see all the settings.

The Cnet article is here:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10423985-56.html

 

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

While searching for answers to the "Desktop Icons folder" problem I
just posted, I ran across an interesting article at Cnet called
"Understanding Windows 7's 'GodMode'".

You create a folder with a particular name, and it will automatically
be populated with links to just about every kind of customization or
setting you can do, in one list under a couple of dozen categories.
It's pretty cool. I don't think there's anything there that we
couldn't get through other means, but having it all in one list is
pretty impressive.

Create a new folder and call it
GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} The name changes to
GodMode and the icon looks Control-Panelish. Open the folder and
you'll see all the settings.

The Cnet article is here:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10423985-56.html

Fortunately, it doesn't have to be called "GodMode." It can named
anything you want, as long as it has the alphanumeric extension. I call
mine "MasterControlPanel," which is more informative and less embarrassing.

 

[Ophelia]

Fortunately, it doesn't have to be called "GodMode." It can named
anything you want, as long as it has the alphanumeric extension. I call
mine "MasterControlPanel," which is more informative and less
embarrassing.

Pah! I don't care what it is called so long as it gives me what I want
Jolly useful it is
sometimes too

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Fortunately, it doesn't have to be called "GodMode." It can named
anything you want, as long as it has the alphanumeric extension. I call
mine "MasterControlPanel," which is more informative and less embarrassing.

It needs the brackets too, of course.

It is more properly a hexadecimal number, really five of them separated
by hyphens, and it is called a GUID, which stands for Globally Unique
Identifier. Things like that are scattered throughout Windows, including
being used as the names of registry entries, as well as files and
directories.

You could start here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globally_unique_identifier

if you care enough

IIRC, I eventually uninstalled my GodMode link; I also didn't call it by
that name

 

[Steve]

While searching for answers to the "Desktop Icons folder" problem I
just posted, I ran across an interesting article at Cnet called
"Understanding Windows 7's 'GodMode'".

You create a folder with a particular name, and it will automatically
be populated with links to just about every kind of customization or
setting you can do, in one list under a couple of dozen categories.
It's pretty cool. I don't think there's anything there that we
couldn't get through other means, but having it all in one list is
pretty impressive.

Create a new folder and call it
GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
The name changes to GodMode and the icon looks Control-Panelish. Open
the folder and you'll see all the settings.

The Cnet article is here:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10423985-56.html

I have a God Mode folder on my desktop. As Dave mentioned, you could
have called it anything and it would do the same thing. It's the
{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} that makes it happen.
Calling it God Mode was a little silly, since it doesn't do anything
new. The term God Mode was borrowed from video games. Some games had a
string of text that would make the player be like a god. After entering
God Mode in a game, you could do anything in the game with no worry
about being killed, yourself.

Steve
PS If truly was a God Mode, it would help me get rid of that Phantom
icon on my desktop that is still there. (see my post from 3 days ago)

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

I have a God Mode folder on my desktop. As Dave mentioned, you could
have called it anything and it would do the same thing. It's the
{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} that makes it happen.
Calling it God Mode was a little silly, since it doesn't do anything
new. The term God Mode was borrowed from video games. Some games had a
string of text that would make the player be like a god. After entering
God Mode in a game, you could do anything in the game with no worry
about being killed, yourself.

Steve
PS If truly was a God Mode, it would help me get rid of that Phantom
icon on my desktop that is still there. (see my post from 3 days ago)

LOL

Looks like you're obsessing over it! But then I would too...

Have you tried enabling THE Administrator account, logging in (or
switching user) there, and deleting the item from a command prompt?

 

[Cheng Heng]

Pah! I don't care what it is called so long as it gives me what I want
Jolly useful it is
sometimes too

How about calling it Linux Mode to make certain Alias
blush!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

It needs the brackets too, of course.

It is more properly a hexadecimal number, really five of them separated
by hyphens, and it is called a GUID, which stands for Globally Unique
Identifier. Things like that are scattered throughout Windows, including
being used as the names of registry entries, as well as files and
directories.

You could start here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globally_unique_identifier

if you care enough

IIRC, I eventually uninstalled my GodMode link; I also didn't call it by
that name

I cared enough to look at the Wikipedia article I cited.

1. It just scratches the surface...

2. ..but that was enough to make me dizzy

To understand it better, one would need more motivation than I have
right now, such as being involved in a programming task that makes use
of GUIDs and their cousins.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

IIRC, I eventually uninstalled my GodMode link; I also didn't call it by
that name

Liar, liar, pants on fire.

I searched (thanks, Agent Ransack), and found it still hanging around.
Looks like it was uninstalled from my brain, but not the computer.

I didn't call it GodMode, though - I called it ToolFolder, since I am a
modest sort of fellow.

 

[SC Tom]

Liar, liar, pants on fire.

I searched (thanks, Agent Ransack), and found it still hanging around.
Looks like it was uninstalled from my brain, but not the computer.

I didn't call it GodMode, though - I called it ToolFolder, since I am a
modest sort of fellow.

I got rid of mine shortly after creating it. There wasn't much there that I
found useful that I couldn't find elsewhere. Plus if I want it back, it's
easy enough to do.
The one thing that never worked right for me was the name. No matter what
the first part of it was called (I started out with Utils.{GUID string}),
after the folder was created, the name remained Utils.{GUID string}. I
finally settled on ..{GUID string} until I deleted it.

 

[Bob I]

I cared enough to look at the Wikipedia article I cited.

1. It just scratches the surface...

2. ..but that was enough to make me dizzy

More of a TweakUI for WIN7, I installed it back in January when I got
this computer.

 

[Lewis]

Fortunately, it doesn't have to be called "GodMode." It can named
anything you want, as long as it has the alphanumeric extension. I call
mine "MasterControlPanel," which is more informative and less embarrassing.

This is not unique to windows 7.

Someone I knew with Vista had this enabled. It was called "SummonSatan"

 

[relic]

Liar, liar, pants on fire.

I searched (thanks, Agent Ransack), and found it still hanging around.
Looks like it was uninstalled from my brain, but not the computer.

I didn't call it GodMode, though - I called it ToolFolder, since I am a
modest sort of fellow.

I would call it "relic mode"

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Fortunately, it doesn't have to be called "GodMode." It can named
anything you want, as long as it has the alphanumeric extension. I call
mine "MasterControlPanel," which is more informative and less embarrassing.

I named mine "Flying Spaghetti Monster Mode."



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[KCB]

?

Fortunately, it doesn't have to be called "GodMode." It can named
anything you want, as long as it has the alphanumeric extension. I call
mine "MasterControlPanel," which is more informative and less
embarrassing.

Embarrassing? You mean you'd be embarrassed if somebody saw it on your
computer? lol

 

[Steve]

LOL

Looks like you're obsessing over it! But then I would too...

Have you tried enabling THE Administrator account, logging in (or
switching user) there, and deleting the item from a command prompt?

Yes I am!
I just now tried it. Enabled the administrator account. logged on there,
opened a command prompt with run as administrator (probably redundant)
typed in DEL /F /Q /A "file location and name(there is no extension)"
Result: Cannot find user/Steve/desktop etc (or something about like that
- I'm back logged in my normal account so can't bring up that command
prompt window easily) - Steve

 

[Char Jackson]

Yes I am!
I just now tried it. Enabled the administrator account. logged on there,
opened a command prompt with run as administrator (probably redundant)
typed in DEL /F /Q /A "file location and name(there is no extension)"
Result: Cannot find user/Steve/desktop etc (or something about like that
- I'm back logged in my normal account so can't bring up that command
prompt window easily) - Steve

I would go to an elevated prompt, then navigate to the folder where
the file resides. Use the DIR command to verify that it's there. If
you can't delete it directly from there, try using a wildcard but
always use the DIR command with the wildcard first to make sure you're
only affecting the one file. I don't see the value of the switches
you're using, by the way.

 

[DanS]

Steve
PS If truly was a God Mode, it would help me get rid of
that Phantom icon on my desktop that is still there. (see
my post from 3 days ago)

A wild stab in the dark........at a command prompt in the
Desktop folder, issues a: dir /x

If the filename shows up there, try deleting it using the
shortened 'proper' 8.3 name instead fo the display name.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

More of a TweakUI for WIN7, I installed it back in January when I got
this computer.

We're talking about GUIDs here, not GodMode.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

I would call it "relic mode"

Obviously you're not a modest sort of fellow (kidding).