A Second Look at GodMode {ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

February 17, 2010 by 2 Comments

Have you been looking for a way to access all of your control panels in one spot? Want to consolidate your access to Windows options in one folder? Want to just try something cool? You should check out the “God Mode” in Windows 7.

God Mode

Ina Fried over at CNET broke this story just before CES but apparently it did not get a lot of coverage in our circles. Andrew told me told me about it yesterday so I thought I would rehash the basics. A simple Yahoo search brought up 36,200 results but I have never heard of it.

Ina’s original article with a short video can be found at:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10423985-56.html

I am not sure where the God Mode comes in but I will run with it.

Steps

  • Right mouse click in a directory
  • Select New folder
  • Paste: GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} as the folder name
  • Press Enter

God Mode

The folder changes to a new icon.

God Mode

Double click on the folder/new icon and scroll to see your options.

God Mode

I guess if you are not a religious person you could replace “God” with your own name or location.

Kona Mode Cat Guy

I then just put my new folder in the Start Menu

Kona Mode

Thank you Andrew for the heads up on this cool Windows 7 feature.

Tim

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  • http://usingwindowshomeserver.com Andrew Edney

    Thanks for writing this up Tim :-)

    And was the CatGuy reference for me :-)

    Andrew

  • http://fasthair.blogspot.com/2009/03/youve-been-served.html fasthair

    Timothy,

    There are a whole lot of these GUID folders in Vista/7. After Ian wrote that Ed Bott did a post with a list of 39 of these folder types. Seems he had this figured out long ago.

    http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=1615

    fasthair