{"id":1491,"date":"2010-01-06T13:36:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T08:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/2010\/01\/windows-7-god-mode-extended-control-panel\/"},"modified":"2010-01-06T13:38:17","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T08:08:17","slug":"windows-7-god-mode-extended-control-panel-for-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/2010\/01\/windows-7-god-mode-extended-control-panel-for-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 God Mode : Extended Control Panel for Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently there has been a lot of buzz about the Windows 7 "God Mode" feature which provides an access to all control panel tasks in a folder which can be referred as Super control panel. GodMode was discovered by my friend Ramesh Kumar<\/a> when he had posted it at Merawindows<\/a> in 2007 with different name. Although godname has been adopted from the cheatcodes in Computer games.<\/p>\n

Steps to enable it:<\/p>\n

1. Create a new folder in any of the folder in any of your Windows partition.<\/p>\n

2. Right-click on the folder and click on rename (or press F2 )<\/p>\n

3. Rename the folder as WindowsVJ.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"steps_godmode\"<\/a>  <\/p>\n

4. Press enter and the icon would change into an extended control panel which enlists all the tasks in Control panel.<\/p>\n

\"godmodetasks\"<\/a>The trick is also said to work in Windows Vista, and although it works fine in 32-bit versions of Vista, it can cause a crash in 64-bit versions of that operating system . It can be referred as an Easter egg in windows. Apart from it i found a list of other special folders which can be created in Windows, at TheWindowsClub<\/a> :<\/p>\n

Here is a select list of CLSID<\/strong> to open Windows Special Folders. Not all may open via the Run command however!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Administrative Tools.{D20EA4E1-3957-11d2-A40B-0C5020524153}
All Tasks.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002b30309d}
Fonts.{D20EA4E1-3957-11d2-A40B-0C5020524152}
Computer.{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
Documents.{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}
History.{ff393560-c2a7-11cf-bff4-444553540000}
Network Places.{208d2c60-3aea-1069-a2d7-08002b30309d}
Printers and Faxes.{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}
Programs Folder.{7be9d83c-a729-4d97-b5a7-1b7313c39e0a}
Recycle Bin.{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
Start Menu.{48e7caab-b918-4e58-a94d-505519c795dc}
Scheduled Tasks.{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Whenever the Windows shell needs to access such a system folder, it uses the CLSID to search through the Windows Registry to find the appropriate .dll or other object. MSDN<\/a> has also documented this feature of the Windows shell, whereby special system folders can be easily made into namespace junctions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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