Steve Jenkins' Blog » God Mode http://stevejenkins.com/blog Tech articles, product reviews, and other geeky stuff. Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:59:47 +0000 en hourly 1 Activate Windows 7 God Mode http://stevejenkins.com/blog/2010/02/activate-windows-7-god-mode/ http://stevejenkins.com/blog/2010/02/activate-windows-7-god-mode/#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:24:45 +0000 Steve Jenkins http://stevejenkins.com/blog/?p=383
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    • ]]>     Don’t get too excited… it’s not as awesome as God Mode in DOOM, but it is a fun little easier egg for uber-geeks hiding under the hood of Windows 7. Windows 7 God Mode allows you to tinker with all of the the operating system’s control panel items from within a single folder.

    Here’s how you do it:

    1. Create a new folder (I put it on my Desktop, but it can be anywhere you like).
    2. Rename the folder to:
    GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

    The folder’s icon will then change a blue control panel. Open it up, and check out all the stuff you can control.

    Don’t let the power go to your head. :)

    Rumor has it that this also works in Windows Vista, but I just upgraded my last copy of Vista, so someone else is going to have to test it out and confirm it in the comments.

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