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[Snuffy]

Wow, everything you need in one folder.  Info Provided from Deuce to Snuffy

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:

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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.

I've ( CNET News, Ina Fried) asked Microsoft for more details on the feature and how it came to be. But so far, Redmond is silent on the topic.
 

[iomoga]

Very nice, I like it.

[stig]

Wow. Everything i ever wanted with on Click !

Many Thx


Stig

[dezel29]

hell yea...thanks brother !!! 

[MusicaLiberatioN]

I was just about to post this myself, glad i searched first.  Works great!!

[Snuffy]

So very sorry that I (Snuffy) did not find all this stuff back in "95, when it seems it first came out.
Anyway here is some more info related.
Info contributed by others.  (I only post what I find.) Sometimes I test the info prior to posting.
Other times I let someone else do the testing. 
There are more of these folders that can be created. A couple more that work on my (Original Posters) Win7 install:
Printers.{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}
InstallNewPrograms.{15eae92e-f17a-4431-9f28-805e482dafd4}
ManageWirelessNetworks.{1FA9085F-25A2-489B-85D4-86326EEDCD87}
RecentPlacesFolder.{22877a6d-37a1-461a-91b0-dbda5aaebc99}
WorkspacesCenter.{241D7C96-F8BF-4F85-B01F-E2B043341A4B}

I suspect the key to these is the SFGAO_FOLDER (0x20000000L) == Support BindToObject(IID_IShellFolder) flag specified for the attributes of the registered Class IDs.
(e.g. HKCR\CLSID\{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}\ShellFolder\Attributes = 0x20100004), and likely the lack of other attributes like SFGAO_HIDDEN.

[springheal]

I love this tool  and was never aware of it.

This is a keeper for me.

Thanks snuffy/ilesal.

[g00ner]

seen this info elsewhere but thanks for it anyways
;)

[ilesal]

In fact, there is no need to create a new folder to access it. You can directly access it using following command in RUN or Windows Explorer addressbar:

    shell:::{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

[KJS]

Hey! Cheating aint allowed!

Very nice :D Thanks for this info!

[roblj65]

Thanks Snuffy 

[ulitza]

the overarching GodMode folder option.

Sinofsky and others say the term GodMode was coined by bloggers; it was not something the company used internally to refer to the settings folders. Although Microsoft maintains many such undocumented developer commands to access such settings, all are replicated by the operating system's Control Panel settings.

Such undocumented means of accessing various settings have occurred in previous versions of Windows, and the GodMode identified by bloggers was also present in Windows Vista. Some users of the 64-bit version of Vista, however, say invoking the GodMode folder caused their machines to crash. Microsoft says it has yet to reproduce that problem, though several readers have said they have encountered problems.

It seems that the folks in Redmond have gotten a kick out of all the attention that the Godmode has gotten and have decided to have fun with it. Sinofsky sent a list of other commands that also create special folders (see list below).

Given the Vista issues, though, I would try these only on a Windows 7 machine, ideally a test machine. To make it work, create a new folder with any name, then a period, then one of the text strings below.

For example, the first one could be a folder named "thankscnet.{00C6D95F-329C-409a-81D7-C46C66EA7F33}" (use everything inside quotes--but not the quotes themselves).

Here's the list of strings:

{00C6D95F-329C-409a-81D7-C46C66EA7F33}
{0142e4d0-fb7a-11dc-ba4a-000ffe7ab428}
{025A5937-A6BE-4686-A844-36FE4BEC8B6D}
{05d7b0f4-2121-4eff-bf6b-ed3f69b894d9}
{1206F5F1-0569-412C-8FEC-3204630DFB70}
{15eae92e-f17a-4431-9f28-805e482dafd4}
{17cd9488-1228-4b2f-88ce-4298e93e0966}
{1D2680C9-0E2A-469d-B787-065558BC7D43}
{1FA9085F-25A2-489B-85D4-86326EEDCD87}
{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}
{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}
{241D7C96-F8BF-4F85-B01F-E2B043341A4B}
{4026492F-2F69-46B8-B9BF-5654FC07E423}
{62D8ED13-C9D0-4CE8-A914-47DD628FB1B0}
{78F3955E-3B90-4184-BD14-5397C15F1EFC}


More info:

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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee330741(VS.85).aspx

[Auto]

Nice one ulitza.

    

[Viking]

It's truly amazing how this works. Thanks Snuffy and ulitza!   

[Mudduck]

Thank you!

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