Create a folder on your desktop
rename it to God-Mode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
Vista has God-mode as well. There were also a few other secrets as well. I think the ones they had in XP were patched as they ended up being some kind of security hole...
Neat.
Who found this and how?
Actually there doesn't really seem to be too many options there that you can't otherwise access through other, often less pretty interfaces. If anything, it looks more like n00b mode to me.
Nice to have lots of options in a single place, with a logical way to find them.
See, now that's what I'm talking about. Just give me the list. None of this open-subtab-icon-right-click-dropdown-in-advanced-mode-dialogue-subsection crap.
+1
Cool. I had made an 'invisible desktop folder' as per some nonsensical imgur post. I was looking for something nerdtastic to put in that folder, to reward somebody finding it. Now I've found the perfect thing to put in.
Old and it's not as you couldn't easily find what you want in the menu search bar.
And since the first time I saw that tweak I didn't understood in which manner you can consider a place with all shortcuts a 'god' mode, plus the name doesn't matter.
You can name it whatever you want, the only thing is to add .{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} to it.
And ...
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/the-ultimate-god-mode-list-39-secret-windows-7-shortcuts/1615
Edit:
A better way is to create a shortcut pointing to explorer. Doing so you'll not see the garbage (ED7BA...) in the name.
Just do a shortcut to "explorer shell:::{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}"
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Edit2: attached the given shortcut.
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Edit3: Found something related in my bookmarks:
They also give explanations about it and other shortcut places.
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It's quite a lot of work to create/delete these manually, so I wrote a rudimentary batch file to do it.
(Many of them are duplicates; I'm too lazy to sort them out)
I got the GUIDs and names from GullRaDriel's link(s). They are split into groups based on the URL/page they were found on.
godmode [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] godmode clean Creates the original "God Mode" directory, named "Control Hub" instead. Additional options follow. 1 Create "group 1" directories. 2 Create "group 2" directories. 3 Create "group 3" directories. clean Remove all directories (including the original "God Mode" AKA "Control Hub").
Use at own risk.
BamBam hit a new time by overdoing it ^^ ;-)
Cool and thanks for the sharing bro, now go and do the same with nice shortcuts you fool !
I hate configuration, and I'm glad Windows tries to hide all this type of crap from me.
I hate configuration, and I'm glad Windows tries to hide all this type of crap from me.
I remember there was a time long ago when I was big on modding out my OS with things like WindowBlinds. I would only use MP3 players that had super OMG fx and skins. I'd send screenshots to my friends of how I was tty in matrix.
Now I don't care, so much that I prefer the interface to be as unnoticeable as possible.
(Many of them are duplicates; I'm too lazy to sort them out)
You should write a perl script to remove those duplicates .
I hate configuration, and I'm glad Windows tries to hide all this type of crap from me.
Fortunately, you only ever do it once for each package you install. After that, the dotfile simply goes into the repository, and you can check it out on any machine you want (and because it's under source control, any changes can be rolled back at any time). Oh wait, that doesn't work on Windows.
And for the record: .bat files suck.