Windows 7 "Godmode"

[Softball]

If you have Windows 7, check this out, pretty cool.

http://gizmodo.com/5440159/understandin ... 7s-godmode


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.

By creating a new folder in Windows 7 and renaming it with a certain text string at the end, 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.

The trick is also said to work in Windows Vista, although some are warning that although it works fine in 32-bit versions of Vista, it can cause 64-bit versions of that operating system to crash.


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

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


Once that is done, the folder's icon will change to resemble a control panel and will contain dozens of control options. I'm not sure it's my idea of playing God, but it is a handy way to get to all kinds of controls.

~SB

[daofcmacg]

Here is a supporting link to what you just posted.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10426627-56.html

there are more than a dozen text strings that will give you access to a host of stuff.

DA

[Hammer]

confirmed it works on 32 bit Vista.

definitely do research before trying it on 64 bit.

[VEGETA]

so who wants to take bets tell M$ screwes this up for people